Our cookbook, Love Real Food, refrigerator sweet pickles apple cider vinegar here! You’ll love these fresh homemade pickles!

This recipe for dill refrigerator pickles is ready in 1 to 3 hours, depending on how you slice your cucumbers. What took me so long to make classic pickles? As it turns out, homemade dill pickles are simple, easy and delicious. They’re the perfect little summertime project, if you even want to call it that. These pickles are tangy and refreshing, nice and crisp, and offer garden-fresh flavor.

They remind me of Claussen or Grillo’s pickles—but they’re even better. In short, I’m in love with this refrigerator pickle recipe and I think you will be, too. These pickles are made with simple ingredients. I added a touch of sweetener, too—just enough to cut the bite of vinegar. However, the sweetness level is entirely up to you. These pickles aren’t overwhelmingly salty, either, yet they’re fully seasoned.