Dilly Snap Beans

Name: Dilly Snap Beans
Yield: makes about 6 pints
Ingredients: 12 small chile peppers; 12 sprigs fresh dill; 12 garlic cloves, smashed; 12 whole cloves; 1/4 cup dill seeds; 1/4 cup mustard seeds; 1/4 cup kosher salt; 3 pounds green beans or mixed beans, such as wax beans, haricots verts, and pole beans, stem ends trimmed to fit the jars; 5 cups apple cider vinegar; 5 cups water

December 14, 2011

My dad used to make these crisp and vinegary dilly beans every summer, in those fleeting moments between the time the bean bushes bear fruit and the grazing deer eat their fill. My sister has since taken over this tradition, and the few precious jars she gives us each year are worth their weight in gold.

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