Bread and Butter Pickles
Source of Recipe
Edith Pohlman
List of Ingredients
- 25-30 medium cucumbers
- 8 large white onions
- 1/2 c. canning salt
- 5 c. cider vinegar
- 5 c. sugar
- 2 tbsp. mustard seed
- 1 tsp. tumeric
- 1/2 tsp. cloves
Instructions
- Wash cucumbers and slice as thin as possible. Slice onions. Mix with cucumbers and add salt.
- Let stand 3 hours and drain.
- Combine vinegar, sugar and spices in a large kettle and bring to a boil.
- Add drained pickles. Heat thoroughly, but DO NOT BOIL.
- Pack while hot into jars within 1/2 inch from the top. Process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes.
- Makes 14 pints or 7 quarts.