How to Make Pickles

Ingredients

• Special tools: three wide-mouth pint canning jars and lids
• 3 cups distilled white vinegar (or cider vinegar)
• 1 ½ cups water
• 6 Tbsp sea salt
• 6 tsp sugar
• 3 cups water
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 1 Tbsp plus 1 teaspoon sea salt
• Cucumbers, julienned
• Organic carrots, julienned
• Cauliflower, trimmed and cut into florets
• 2 - 6 garlic cloves, smashed
• 1 - 3 stalks dill
• 3 - 6 dried chile peppers
• 1 2-inch piece of ginger, cut into thin slices
• 1 - 3 tsp whole black pepper
• 1 - 3 tsp pickling spices