Cucumbers should be pre-washed and soaked in cold running water for 6-8 hours. I was soaked in well water. The water needs to be changed, the more the better.

Prepare remaining ingredients. In this recipe the proportions to 3-liter jar. I don't like to marinate in large banks, I have 3 small banks (0.7 l), so all the ingredients I divided into 3 banks). Leaves and greens good wash and dry. Garlic and horseradish root clean. Pepper clean from seeds.

Black pepper...

Coriander...

Bay leaf...

Drain the water from the cucumbers. Opolaskivaniem them again with cold water, cut the "tails". Prepare a bowl of ice cold water. Douse the pickles with boiling water (I used a large colander). Can this procedure produce the parts.

And immediately scalded cucumbers immersed in a bowl of ice cold water.

In sterile jars stacked part of the prepared spices and herbs and cucumbers "upright", laid the remaining herbs and spices. Hot pepper and garlic, of course, placed there too.

Prepare the brine. Boil water, dissolve in it the salt and sugar. Filtered through several layers of cheesecloth. Bring again to a boil and pour the boiling pickle jars to the top leaving some space. Then pour in a jar of 120ml of vinegar and 3 tablespoons of vodka. Attention! This 3-liter jar. If banks take a smaller amount, calculate the proportion. Ie if You have 3 cans of 1 l, respectively, pour in each can of 40ml of vinegar and 1 tbsp of vodka, etc.

Banks covered with sterile lids and put be sterilized in a pot of heated water (60 degrees) at the bottom of the pan put a towel or something similar. Bring water in saucepan to a boil, reduce the gas. As pickles in a jar will change color - roll. Banks, if possible, to quickly cool. From the author. "The pickles are not sterilized. Just pour boiling brine to stand for about 5 minutes, then drain the brine, boil again and pour over cucumbers. After the secondary pour to pour 120 ml of vinegar, 3 tablespoons of vodka, roll up and cover with something warm to full cool." In this recipe, this way I am not used, in the other - it's so perfect and well kept.

And in winter, enjoy delicious, crispy spicy cucumbers! The recipe, of course, is not the most basic in cooking, it may even seem that quite difficult.. BUT... it's worth It!!! Bon appetit!