Dill Pickles with Garlic and Onion

Ingredients:

For each quart jar (or in my case, ¾ litre)

• 1 slice onion
• 1 ½ cloves garlic
• 1 head of dill
• 1 tbs pickling or sea salt (do not use Iodized or rock salt)
• 1 tbs sugar
• 1/8 tsp alum
• 4 juniper berries
• ¼ tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tiny, dried, hot red pepper (about ½ inch long)
• ¼ tsp black peppercorns
• 1 small bay (laurel) leaf, broken
• ½ cup white vinegar

 Instructions:

• Put onion, garlic and half the dill into the bottom of the jar.
• Tightly pack in the pickling cukes.
• Add the salt, sugar, alum and all spices.
• Pour vinegar over the top
• Fill with boiling water, put hot rubber ring on, seal and process, boiling water bath, for 15 minutes.