I start out by washing all of my canning jars, lids and rings in the dishwasher to sterilize them, while those are washing I go pick my cucumbers out of our garden
Get your Mrs. Wages Pickle Seasoning and follow the directions on the back of the package to make your liquid
Now were ready to deal with these cucumbers wash them off good and start slicing we like to do ours in spears but you can do whatever you like always remember when your cutting up your cucumbers to cut off the blossom end(not the end where you pull it off the vine but the other end) if you leave those on it will make your cucumbers go bad. Yucky blossom end below.
Slicing up the cucumbers
Once you get a couple cucumbers sliced up its time to start filling up your jars. We pack ours in as many as will fit just make sure you don't have any tall ones that come up over your jar and into the rim space, and no that's not wine in the back ground (Hee Hee)
Now it's time to add your Ball Pickle Crisp this stuff makes those pickles so crunchy we love it, just follow the directions on the back of the jar.
By this time, your Mrs. Wages Pickle Seasoning mixture should be boiling and ready to go so start filling up your jars and leave a little head space at the top like the picture below then wipe your rim off with a paper towel to make sure nothing is there so you can get a good seal on the jar.
Put the lids on and get them into the Water Bath Canner for 5 minutes to process under a rolling boil. When you put your jars into the canner the water will stop boiling I always wait until it is back up to a rolling boil before I start counting my 5 minutes process time.
