Aunt Poly'S Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (1 gallon) container whole dill pickle
1 (5 lb) bag sugar, less 1 cup
1 ounce Tabasco sauce
pickling spices (optional)

Preparation

Drain off and throw away all vinegar from the jug of dill pickles.
Cut pickles in disks, do not cut too thin.
Return the pickles to the gallon jug and add the sugar to pickles.
(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.
Add 1 oz.
Tabasco and pickling spices and mix well.
You can do this by turning jug upside down several times.
The pickles will be crisp in a week to 10 days.