The Best Ever Bread and Butter Pickles

• Serves: 8 pints

Ingredients

• 4 quarts sliced unpared medium cucumbers (about 30 5 inch cucs)
• White onions; thinly sliced to equal 6 cups
• Green peppers; seeded and thinly sliced to equal 1 2/3 cups
• 3 cloves garlic; peeled and scored
• 1/3 cup granulated pickling salt
• Cracked ice; a big bag or two depending upon how many pickles you are making
• 5 cups sugar
• 3 cups cider vinegar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric
• 1 1/2 teaspoons celery seed
• 2 tablespoons mustard seed

Instructions

Combine cucumber, onion, green pepper, and whole garlic cloves. Add salt; cover with cracked ice; mix ingredients thoroughly (this is where I may have 4 - 5 buckets sitting around the kitchen or down the hallway :) Let stand 3 hours; drain well. Remove garlic. Place in a large pot.

Fill your 'sterilized' jars with boiling water; set aside. Combine remaining ingredients; pour over cucumber mixture. Bring the mixture just to a boil, remove from heat. Carefully empty boiling water from the jars and start filling the hot jars with your bread and butter pickles and resulting 'brine'.

Fill hot jars to 1/2 inch from top; wipe around rim with a paper towel or clean cloth, adjust lids. Process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes (start timing when water returns to boiling).

PS Enjoy every single savory, sweet bite of these best ever pickles! I am so happy you have discovered my page and will be trying the recipe!