Ice Water Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 qt. sliced cucumbers
6 onions, sliced
2 small bell peppers
2 garlic bulblets
1/2 c. salt
5 c. sugar
3 c. vinegar
1 1/2 tsp. turmeric
1/2 tsp. celery seed
2 tsp. mustard seed

Preparation

Soak cucumbers, onions, peppers, garlic and salt in ice water for 3 hours, then drain off water.
Mix together sugar, vinegar, turmeric, celery seed and mustard seed and place first mixture in this mixture.
Cook until cucumbers change color.
Makes 4 quarts.