Reviewed: Jul. 9, 2011

These are crisp pickles.but I found out Ball has a jar of pickle crisp that you can add to each canning jar after filling the jars. I just bought some to use on my 16 quarts of pickles I canned yesterday. I found it at walmart.

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Ann

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Living In: Providence Forge, Virginia, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 24, 2011

No one needs to add any chemicals or pickle crisp in their pickles. When washing your cucumbers cut the flower end off of it. There is an enzyme in it that will eventually cause your pickles to go soft. Everyone raves over mine and I haven't had a jar of pickles go soft for years even after being in the jar for a year.

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Dede

Reviewed: Aug. 3, 2011

Great recipe. Will use it every year. I only had dill seed, so I used about two teaspoons per pint jar. I put two cloves of garlic in each jar. I like the garlic flavor.

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Sherry

Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: Aug. 6, 2011

Oh my gosh - these are the BEST. I tried a Ball recipe on my first go round and ended up dumping them out. These are perfect! The difference is the white vinegar and less of the pickling spice. I did add 1/8 t. of Ball Pickle Crisp to each pint jar. They are crunchy, tart, delicious. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!

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Donna

Reviewed: Aug. 24, 2011

This was my first attempt at pickles, and I was NOT dissapointed! they were so awsome! I threw a couple small pieces of hot pepper in each jar, so they were a tad hot, but in a good way. They would have been great without the peppers too. Most definatly will make again!

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pennyh

Reviewed: Dec. 24, 2011

Amazing, perfect dill-pickle flavor. I did mine as slices and they're the BEST. I'll be making these every year!

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poohey23

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jul. 17, 2012

Excellent recipe! Although I love garlic, I prefer the simpler taste of "Pop's" original recipe without garlic. The first time I made these, I didn't have dill heads or seed, so I substituted 4 sprigs of fresh dill weed per 1 litre jar (2 sprigs at the bottom, 2 sprigs on top), and the result was great. I find have to increase the brine recipe by about a half to make sure I can fully cover the pickles.

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