Flutterby™! : Pickles!

What I made on Sunday afternoon, many ingredients were "because we had them" rather than because they were first choice.

• 1 large daikon (came from Charlene's dad, who grows 'em), cut into thin slices
• 2 cups white vinegar
• 2 cups cider vinegar (what we had on-hand)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 clove garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped
• 1 tbs dried dill
• 8 juniper berries, crushed
• 8 cloves
• 1 tsp mustard seed
• 1 bay leaf

Start water boiling with pickling jars and lids in it. Boil vinegar and sugar together, add garlic, let boil for a few minutes (garlic can carry nasty anaerobic microbes which you do not want in mixtures that won't get used very quickly). Toss rest of ingredients in the brine, while you're doing that, pull out the jars (with tongs) and stuff in the daikon slices. Pour the brine in on top, out jars back in the boiling water, lightly fasten the lids, let boil for 15 minutes, then screw down the lids and remove the jars from the boiling water.

Tasty. Not perfect, but a good tribute to a big honkin' chunk o' veggie.