Bread And Butter Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. cucumbers
8 small onions
2 green peppers
1/2 c. salt
1 heaping tsp. alum
5 c. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. turmeric
2 Tbsp. white mustard seed
1 tsp. celery seed
5 c. vinegar

Preparation

Slice cucumbers, but not too thin.
Cut peppers and onions in small pieces.
Sprinkle the vegetables with the 1/2 cup salt and use a few lumps of ice.
Let this stand for 3 hours, then drain off this water.
Make a pickling syrup using alum, sugar, turmeric, mustard seed, celery seed and vinegar.
Pour all this in a kettle and stir often, using a wooden spoon.
Let this come to a boil, but do not boil.
Put in jars and seal.