@perchie.girl, I need some of your expert canning advice
(and any other old folk who may have the answer to this question for me)
Neighbor gave us a quart of dill pickles, or at least what I thought were dill pickles. I'm the only one that eats them and I love them on burgers and the like.
When I opened them, I discovered that they aren't DILL pickles, they are pickled cucumber slices. No dill flavor, no nothin in them but vinegar and maybe water? I dunno but the vinegar taste is very strong.
I would really like to try to save these pickled whatever you call them and finally came up with an idea.
I bought some pickling spices on
Amazon. If I were to drain off the vinegar solution, heat it, add a tablespoon or what ever anyone can suggest in order to do just a quart jar of pickles, add the pickling spices and simmer the solution, then cool it and add it to the cucumbers, would it add flavor to the pickles or am I wasting my time and should I just buy some cucumber seeds and do my own thing?
I wish I'd had a picture of me the first time I bit into one of those cucumber slices. I'm a pickle aficionado so I've never grimaced and spit something into the trash so fast in my life. I hate to think of that poor family, sweet as they are, eating quarts after quarts of these things.
Thanks guys for any information you can give me.
. I've taken a few bits if a piece .. can't help my little ol self.
Now have a temporary enclosure set up here at Grandmas house and a friend is bringing me a Trio today. Two hens and a very young Cockrel.
spent the afternoon in physical therepy. Getting stronger less wobbly already.... 
