Mama'S Bread And Butter Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. medium size cucumbers
8 small white onions
1 sweet green pepper
1 hot green pepper
1 sweet red pepper
1/2 c. salt
5 c. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. turmeric
1 1/2 tsp. ground cloves
2 tsp. mustard seed
2 tsp. celery seed
5 c. vinegar
Cracked ice

Preparation

Slice cucumbers (as Mama says, \"kindly thin\"), onions and pepper into a large crock, do not use metal.
Add salt.
Cover with ice and mix; let stand 3 hours or longer.
Drain.
Combine vinegar, sugar and spices.\tMix with cucumbers.
Bring to a boil. Seal in sterilized jars.
Makes 8 quarts.
Use a crock or churn, no metal containers.