Sweet Garlic Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. sour pickles
2 tsp. celery seed
1 c. tarragon vinegar
2 tsp. mustard seed
3 whole bulbs garlic, peeled
1 Tbsp. whole black peppercorns
1 box or 1/2 c. pickling spices
5 lb. sugar
1 Tbsp. turmeric

Preparation

Drain pickles and slice; put into large glass container or crock (punch bowl can be used).
Add sugar, garlic, vinegar and pepper and mix together.
Fold the cheese cloth 3 or 4 times to make it dense enough to hold the pickling spices, celery seed and mustard seed.
Fold up the spices in the cheese cloth to make a small bundle; tie ends with cord.
Bury bundle of spices in middle of pickles.
Sprinkle turmeric over top.
Loosely cover container with plastic wrap.
Daily for the next 5 days, remove bundle, stir, replace bundle and cover.
Fill jars with tight lids.
No need to refrigerate.