Pickle Recipes - Bread and Butters

There are dozens of bread and butter pickle recipes out there. I hope you like this one.

6 Pounds cucumbers, cleaned and sliced crosswise
2 pounds small onions, slicked into rounds
Ice
1/2 cup pickling salt
4 1/2 cups vinegar
3 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons ground turmeric
1 teaspoon celery seeds
2 teaspoons yellow mustard seeds

Toss the cucumbers and onions with the salt.
Cover them with ice from 2 ice trays and let stand for 4 hours.
Drain the vegetables.
Put everything else into a pot and bring to a boil.
Add the vegetables and slowly bring it back toa boil.
Pack the vegetables into jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace.
Add brine, again leaving headspace.
Process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes.
Store in a cool, dark place for 3 weeks and then enjoy!