fire and ice pickles

Escondido, CA
Updated on Oct 7, 2011

Recipe given to me by dear friends who have since passed away. Never had anyone who did not like these. These are always in my fridge. So so simple! I hope you enjoy them too.

prep time 15 Min
cook time
method ---
yield Many!!

Ingredients

  • 1 gallon vlasic dills or whole sours (i like to cut them to my preferred size)
  • 12 cloves garlic - mashed
  • 4 pounds sugar
  • 2 teaspoons mustard seed
  • 2 teaspoons celery seed
  • 1 or 2 bottles tabasco sauce (i use only one)

How To Make fire and ice pickles

  • Step 1
    Drain dill pickles well.
  • Step 2
    Cut whole pickles into bite sized pieces
  • Step 3
    Layer pickles in jar interspersed with rest of ingredients. Add most of the sugar at the last. It takes some shaking to get all the sugar to settle in the jar.
  • Step 4
    Roll every day for 1 week. (usually takes only 1-2 days)
  • Step 5
    Refrigerate or process. (I keep mine in the fridge and they keep very well)

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