Bread and Butter Pickles Old Fashioned Canning Recipe

Ingredients:

4 quarts medium cucumbers

6 medium-sized white onions, sliced

2 green peppers, chopped
3 cloves garlic

1/3 cup pickling salt

Crushed ice

5 cups sugar

3 cups apple cider vinegar

1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric

1 1/2 teaspoons celery seed

2 tablespoons mustard seed

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Directions:

Wash cucumbers and slice thin. Combine cucumbers, onion, green pepper, garlic, and salt in a large Dutch oven. Cover with crushed ice; mix thoroughly and let stand 3 hours. Drain.

Combine remaining ingredients and pour over cucumber mixture. Heat thoroughly, just until boiling.

Pack while hot into sterilized pint jars, leaving 1/2-inch headspace.

Adjust lids; process in boiling-water bath 5 minutes.

Yield: 8 pints.