I sorta winged this recipe but it has produced results beyond
my wildest dreams. Melba the jamlady will be quietly sobbing
in the kitchen corner-sorry!

Moosemeats Pickled Sausages

Four Polish kiebasa sausage rings
2 1/2 cups white vinegar
2 1/2 cups bottled water (no tap water)
1/4 cup plain salt
six cloves garlic peeled & halved
pickling spice
one red sweet pepper
for or five red peppers hot
four or five pint canning jars (Run these through the dishwasher to
sterilize)
Put lids in a pan of water to boil
Bring pickling solution to boil and meanwhile
cut the ringed sausages into pieces about an inch long.
Place a quartered piece of garlic, a small piece of hot pepper and
sprinkle about a quarter to a half teaspoon of pickling spice
in bottom of each jar.
pack sausage pieces to top of each jar & add a slice or two of sweet
red pepper with bright red side showing(adds no flavor-just for
appearance only)
Bring the pickling solution to a boil and ladle over jars of sausages.
Put hot tops from pan of boiling water on each jar and screw on rings.
\Added: I put the filled jars in a boiling water bath for 10
minutes-Don't know if this is necessary but from everything I have
read the people who can vegies or pickles seem to do this so I did
too.
I planned to let them "age" for a week or so but I couldn't wait that
long to run a "goodness" check on them so after three days I tried
them out and I'm here to tell you I have nirvana in a jar.

These would make a great gift for the beer drinkers in your life.