Hot Pickled Mushrooms
Ingredients
1 pound small button mushrooms
3 large garlic cloves peeled, sliced
1 Tbsp. dried hot red peppers
1/4 tsp. whole peppercorns
3 large bay leaves, broken in pieces
1 C. distilled vinegar
1 C. water
1/4 C. apple juice
3/4 tsp. salt, or salt substitute
Cooking Instructions
Wash mushrooms; slice off and discard stem ends. Cut into halves, quartering larger ones. Place in hot, clean jars, filling half full, then adding 1/3 sliced garlic, 1/3 red pepper, and 1/3 peppercorns to each. Fill to within 1 inch of top with mushrooms. Combine all other ingredients in saucepan, and bring to a boil. Pour over mushrooms, adding more hot water to each jar, if needed, to cover completely. Cap with hot lids and process in boiling water bath for 20 minutes after water returns to boiling, or 20 minutes in pressure cooker at 10 pounds pressure.
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