Bread and Butter Pickles

 

Country Cooking

 

4     pounds small pickling cucumbers, sliced

6     small sweet yellow onion, sliced

½    cup canning salt

5     cups granulated sugar

4     cups white vinegar

1     tablespoons mustard seed

1     teaspoon ground tumeric

½    teaspoon ground cloves

 

In a large container, combine the cucumbers, onions and salt.  Cover with crushed ice and mix.  Let stand for 3 hours. Drain, rinse with cold water and drain again.  

Combine sugar, vinegar and seasonings and bring to a boil in a large kettle.  Add cucumber mixture and return to a boil.  Ladle hot mixture into hot jars, leaving ¼ inch headspace.  Adjust caps.  Process for 15 minutes in a boiling-water bath.  Remove jars to a wire rack to cool completely. 

Yield:  4 pints.

 

Carolyn Gass Hardimon, M. S.     Home Economist