Claussen-Like Refrigerator Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 cups distilled water
1 cup white vinegar
1 tablespoon non-iodine kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon minced dried garlic
1/4 teaspoon yellow mustard seeds
2 -4 black peppercorns
2 -4 whole allspice
1/2 - 1 whole dried cayenne pepper
1 pinch dill seed
1 pinch dill weed
1 pinch turmeric
1/4 teaspoon sugar or 1 whole carrot
washed cucumber

Preparation

Combine the water, vinegar and salt and bring it to a boil.
Put the spices and cucumbers in quart jars.
Pour the brine mixture over the cucumbers and spices in the jars and seal.
Put them in the refrigerator: Ready in 7-10 days. Keeps 8 - 19 weeks.
Brine can be re used.
This recipe can be multiplied by keeping these proportions: 3 parts water, 1 part vinegar and the spices are for a quart jar.