Bread and Butter Pickles

4 quarts of medium cucumbers
3 onions
1 green pepper
1 sweet red pepper
1/3 cup coarse medium salt ( not iodized)
3 cups of vinegar or apple cider vinegar
5 cups of sugar
3 cloves of garlic
1 1/2 tsp turmeric
1 1/2 tsp celery salt
2 TB mustard seed

Slice cucumbers, cut onions in half and then into strips.  Combine them and mix in a large bowl.  Sprinkle on the salt and cover with cracked ice.  Let stand 3 hours and then drain and rinse.  Combine vinegar and the other ingredients in the pan and heat to a boil.   Add cucumber mixture and heat just to a boil.  DO NOT cook it.   Put in jars and seal by turning jars upside down for 5 minutes.

Makes 8 pints.


From Grandma Murdock