Ice-Water Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 lbs cucumbers (4-inch)
5 medium onions
1 tablespoon mustard seeds
1 quart cider vinegar
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons pickling salt

Preparation

Wash the cucumbers, quarter them lengthwise, and soak them in ice-water for 2 hours.
Peel and slice the onions and pack them in the bottoms of 5 pint jars.
Pack the cucumbers lengthwise in the jars.
Combine the mustard seed, vinegar, sugar and salt, bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute.
Fill the jars to overflowing with the boiling-hot syrup and seal.