
Fresh Pack Pickles5 pounds cucumbers
1/3 cup MRS. WAGES Canning and Pickling Salt
4 cups vinegar
1 cup water
*artificial sweetener to equal 2 cups sugarCut cucumbers into thin slices. Combine with salt. Let stand for 1 hour; drain. Pack drained cucumbers into jars. Mix vinegar with water and add artificial sweetener. Heat to boiling temperature. Cover cucumbers with the boiling vinegar solution.
Adjust lids. Process pint jars in boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Start to count processing time as soon as the water in canner returns to boiling temperature.
Yield: about 6 pints.
*Do not use aspartame sweetener in this recipe