Bread And Butter Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 qt. pickles
6 medium onions, sliced
1 green and red pepper, chopped
1/3 c. salt
3 c. white vinegar
5 c. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. turmeric
1 Tbsp. mustard seed

Preparation

Mix pickles, onions, green and red peppers and salt well. Cover with ice.
Set, covered with ice, for 3 hours.
Make sure there is plenty of ice water to cover.
In large cooking pans, mix vinegar, sugar, turmeric and mustard seed.
Bring to a boil and add pickles.
Do not rinse, just drain off water from pickles. Bring to a simmer.
Do not boil pickles.
Put in sterilized jars.