Zydeco Green Beans

Ingredients

6 garlic cloves sliced
6 teaspoons yellow mustard seeds
3 pounds haricots verts trimmed to 4
6 small fresh or dried chilies - (to 12)
6 dill heads
= (or 6 sprigs baby dill)
3 1/2 cups white wine vinegar
3 1/2 cups water
2 tablespoons pickling salt

Method

Into each of six sterile pint mason jars, put 1 sliced garlic clove and 1 teaspoon mustard seeds. Pack beans vertically into jar, adding 1 to 2 chilies, and, if you like, dill.

In a nonreactive saucepan, bring vinegar, water and salt to a boil. Pour hot liquid over beans, covering them completely. Close jars and refrigerate at least one month before eating. Keep refrigerated.

This recipe yields 6 pints.

Comments: Haricots verts are very slender French green beans. You can substitute other young, tender, very thin green beans. Dill heads are the matured tops of dill that contain the seeds. Use jalape

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