" Smokers" (hot Pickled Peppers)

Total Time: 24 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 24 hrs

Ingredients

• 8 quarts hot peppers (1 peck)
• 1 quart cider vinegar
• 3/4 quart water
• 1 pint vegetable oil
• canning salt
• 1 tablespoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon alum
• 16 garlic cloves

Recipe

• 1 wearing gloves, wash peppers and cut into bite size pieces. leave seeds in every 6th or 8th pepper depending on how hot you want them.
• 2 add peppers and brine together in kettle or glass bowl. do not use anything plastic in this mixture - bowls or spoons!
• 3 stir and let stand over night. continue to stir whenever you get the opportunity.
• 4 in each jar add one clove of garlic in bottom of jar and fill each jar with pepper/brine mixture. add second clove of garlic to the top of jar.
• 5 keep refrigerated if not canned!