Bread And Butter Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. cucumbers, sliced thin
8 onions, chopped
6 sweet peppers, chopped
1/2 c. coarse salt
4 trays ice
4 c. sugar
4 c. vinegar
2 tsp. turmeric
1/2 tsp. cloves
2 tsp. mustard seed
1/2 tsp. celery seed

Preparation

Mix cucumbers, peppers and onions.
Sprinkle salt over the top of the mixture, then add the ice.
Set 3 hours.
Drain water off. Mix together sugar, vinegar, turmeric, cloves, mustard seed and celery seed and pour over cucumbers.
Bring to a boiling point, but do not boil.
Fill hot jars and seal.