Linnie'S Cucumber Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

6 big cucumbers or 5 lbs. pickling cucumbers
1/2 c. plain salt
1 red pepper
2 c. sugar
1 tsp. celery seed
1/2 c. sugar
1 c. onions
water
1 pint vinegar
1 tsp. turmeric
3 Tbsp. flour
small amount of vinegar to make paste

Preparation

Peel, remove seeds and cut 6 big cucumbers into small cubes. Use pickling cucumbers whole after cleaning.
Cut up the onions finely.
Put these in a non-metal container.
Make a brine with the 1/2 cup of salt with enough water to cover the cucumbers. Soak overnight in the brine.
Drain well in the morning.
Clean and chop the red pepper.
Put in a stainless steel or enamel pot. Add the pint of vinegar, sugar and cook until cukes are done.
Do not boil.
Mix in a bowl the turmeric, celery seed, flour, 1/2 cup sugar and add enough vinegar to make a paste.
Stir into vegetable mixture and cook until thickened.
If it doesn't thicken, add more sugar, flour and vinegar stirred to paste.
Seal in hot jars.