Bread And Butter Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

25 cucumbers (3 to 5 inches in length)
1 qt. vinegar
2 tsp. mustard seed
12 onions
2 c. sugar
2 tsp. turmeric
2 tsp. celery seed

Preparation

Wash and drain vegetables.
Slice cucumbers and onions.
Soak in salt solution (2 quarts ice water and 1/2 cup salt) for 3 hours. Mix vinegar, sugar and spices.
Bring to a boil.
Add cucumbers and onions just to heat through.
Pack hot cucumbers into jars, leaving 1/2-inch headspace.
Cover with boiling hot liquid.
Adjust lids. Process in boiling water bath for 15 minutes.