Summer Vegetable Refrigerator Pickles – 3 Porch Farm

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups water
• 3 tablespoons white vinegar or apple cider vinegar
• 1 1/2 tablespoons kosher or pickling salt*
• 2 teaspoons black peppercorns
• 5 cloves garlic, peeled
• 6 large sprigs fresh dill
• 1 bay leaf
• (optional) 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, or more/less to taste
• 1 large English hothouse seedless cucumber, sliced into rounds or spears