Fire And Ice Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gallon dill pickles or 1 gallon sour dill pickle
4 lbs granulated sugar
2 tablespoons mustard seeds
10 bay leaves
10 peeled garlic cloves
1 (2 ounce) bottle Tabasco sauce

Preparation

Empty gallon jar of pickles into a large bowl, throwing away the juice.
Cut the pickles into 1-inch chunks.
Return the pickles into the jar, alternating with all other ingredients listed above.
Put lid on jar and leave sitting out on kitchen counter until sugar has turned into liquid (about three days).
Refrigerate.
If giving as a gift, distribute evenly into smaller jars.
This is great with bland turkey sandwiches at Thanksgiving and Christmas!