French Pickled Garlic



Ingredients

  • 1 c white wine vinegar
  • 1 small dried chili pepper
  • 1 small thyme sprig
  • 1 small rosemary sprig
  • 1 small bay leaf
  • 10 black peppercorns
  • 2 t sugar
  • 1/2 t pickling salt
  • 1 c peeled fresh garlic cloves

Directions

Put all of the ingredients except the garlic into a nonreactive saucepan. Bring the contents to a boil, and gently boil them for 5 minutes. Add the garlic. Return the contents to a boil, then transfer them to a half-pint jar. Let the jar cool, and cover it tightly with a nonreactive cap.

Store the jar in the refrigerator. The garlic will be ready to eat in about 5 days, and will keep well for about 1 year.