You can't go wrong with a Ball Canning book. It's like the canner's Bible.
Once you know how to can stuff up, it's super easy to can anything and make it just like you like.
Pickles are just cucumbers, salt, garlic, fresh dill and whatever peppers you like for spice. You mess around until they are just the way you like them.
These are my red sauce peppers. You eat them on crackers with cream cheese. If you want to get fancy, you get soft tortillas, mix chopped jalapenos with the cream cheese, smear it on the tortilla, then roll it up and cut slices off the roll. Then you dump a spoonful of peppers on your little rolly thing and it's straight to heaven with ya.
Red Sauce Peppers
32oz. ketchup
6oz. tomato paste
2 cups cider vinegar
1 1/2 c. oil
3 c. sugar
1 clove garlic
1 tsp salt
Bring juice to a boil, put in peppers, bring to boil again, put in hot jars.
Do NOT cook peppers down. They'll turn into skins.