Pimento Sweet Pickles

• 24 each hot chili peppers
• 1 tablespoon cloves whole
• 1 blade mace
• 3 inches cinnamon sticks
• 1 tablespoon allspice
• 1 piece ginger root
• 1 tablespoon mustard seeds whole
• 4 cups vinegar
• 7 cups sugar

1. Wash peppers, remove seeds and membranes.
2. Soak overnight in a brine made in proportion of 1 tablespoon salt to 1 quart water.
3. Drain and chop peppers.
4. Heat spices, vinegar, and sugar.
5. Add peppers.
6. Simmer 1/2 hour.
7. Strain.
8. Pack peppers in freshly sterilized jars.
9. Boil down the pickle sirup until thick and pour over peppers until jar is filled.

hot chili peppers, mace, cinnamon sticks, allspice, ginger root, mustard seeds, vinegar, sugar

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/pimento-sweet-pickles-39149 (may not work)