Aunt Poly's Sweet Pickles

Ingredients

• 1 (1 gallon) container whole dill pickles

• 1 (5 lb) bag sugar, less 1 cup
• 1 ounce Tabasco sauce
• pickling spices (optional)

Directions

1. 1

   Drain off and throw away all vinegar from the jug of dill pickles.

2. 2

   Cut pickles in disks, do not cut too thin.

3. 3

   Return the pickles to the gallon jug and add the sugar to pickles.

4. 4

   (It works best of you layer the pickles and sugar a couple to times.) Thghten the lid on jar and turn; shake the jar several times a day until all sugar has dissolved.

5. 5

   Add 1 oz.

6. 6

   Tabasco and pickling spices and mix well.

7. 7

   You can do this by turning jug upside down several times.

8. 8

   The pickles will be crisp in a week to 10 days.