Title: Kerosene Pickles
Categories: Appetizer Canning Preserve Vegetable
Yield: 60 Servings

1	ga	Large dill pickles -- kosher
		Or garlic
5	c	Sugar
2		Cloves garlic -- crushed
1	oz	Tabasco sauce -- or more to
		Taste

Drain pickles from gallon jar and discard liquid. Clean jar and lid well. Cut up pickles in slices or chunks and layer in the jar with the other ingredients. Add NO other liquid. Seal jar well and put in dark place for three days, turning jar twice a day. A pan underneath jar will guard against leakage when jar is upside down. After three days pickles will be ready; store in refrigerator. (Tip: if you decide to try this with whole gherkins you will find it takes much longer than 3 days, but they will come out OK eventually.)

Since this recipe has gone through so many hand-downs that we have no idea who "Cousin Dick" is...we renamed this recipe from an episode of the old Andy Griffith Show, wherein Aunt Bea made endless quarts of pickles which everyone hated and called them Kerosene Pickles. We love our pickles, however, and they always go over big at potlucks and gatherings.

Recipe By : Aunt Sally's cousin Dick (whoever THAT is)

From: Duryrob@minna.Acc.Iit.Edu Date: 20 Sep 1995 12:28:46 -0600

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