Solionye Ogurtsy
- 5 pounds cucumbers
- 2 ounces horseradish
- 1/2 ounce hot chili peppers
- 6 tablespoons salt
- Preparing Cucumbers: wash the cucumbers under running water and place in a bowl.
- Cover with ice water and enough ice to keep them cold for 10 hours.
- Drain the cucumbers and trim both ends so that the brine will more easily penetrate the flesh.
- Assembling: Rinse the dill and divide in half.
- Scrub and rinse the horseradish and slice thinly.
- Peel and halve the garlic.
- Fold half the dill into a ring to fit the bottom of the pickling jar.
- Strew horseradish, garlic, red pepper, and 13 of the tarragon on top.
- Arrange half the cucumbers upright in the jar, packing them tightly.
- Place the second third of the tarragon on top, then pack in the rest of the cucumbers in the same manner.
- Over them layer the remaining dill, horseradish, garlic, pepper and tarragon.
- Combine the salt and water, stirring until the salt dissolves.
- Toss in jars.
- Let sit.
cucumbers, horseradish, hot chili peppers, salt
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/solionye-ogurtsy-46054 (may not work)