—add stuff like garlic, peppercorns, ginger, mustard, seed etc—
Sounds like our pickles, we make bread and butter and dill, with half being regular and half being spicy hot. Hot pickles are popular here.— Maybe some refrigerator ghost pepper flavored pickles, hmmm...
I had noticed the similarities between canned and not canned pickles and had made the assumption that the recipes would interchange.
I love the flavor of bread and butter, but they are not as crunchy as I like. So making up a bread and butter mix, and letting it cool a bit before adding the cukes helps.