Dilled Carrots

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 5 lbs carrots
• 21 garlic cloves
• 6 cups vinegar
• 14 heads fresh dill
• 2 cups water
• 1/2 cup pickling salt
• 3 1/2 teaspoons red pepper flakes (optional)

Recipe

• 1 peel carrots and cut into 3/4 inch thick sticks, 1 inch (2.5 cm) shorter than jar. to prepare pickling liquid,.
• 2 combine vinegar, water and salt in a nonreactive dutch oven.
• 3 bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve salt. in each hot sterilized jar, place 3 clove garlic, 1 head dill, and 1/2 tsp (2 ml) pepper flakes.
• 4 pack carrot sticks into jars and place a.
• 5 second head of dill on top.
• 6 pour boiling pickling liquid over carrots, leaving 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) headspace. remove air.
• 7 with a narrow rubber spatula or plastic knife.
• 8 add additional pickling liquid, if required, to maintain headspace.
• 9 wipe jar rims thoroughly with a clean damp cloth. seal.