Spicy Dilly Beans

Ingredients

• green beans

  washed and trimmed at ends (do not snap beans)
  2 lbs
• – ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper or tabasco sauce (according to your heat preference)
  ¼ unit
• garlic

  whole and peeled
  2 cloves
• mustard seeds (optional)
  ½ teaspoon
• dill (or ½ tsp. dill weed)
  1 head
• distilled vinegar
  5 cups
• pickling salt
  ½ cup
• water
  5 cups