Bread and Butter Pickles

Name: Bread and Butter Pickles
Yield: Makes about 1 quart (1 l)
Ingredients: ⅛ teaspoon ground turmeric; ½ teaspoon celery seeds; 1½ teaspoons mustard seeds; 1 cup (200 g) sugar; 4½ cups (about 1 pound/455 g) thinly sliced (about ¼-inch/6-mm) Kirby cucumbers; 2 cups (480 ml) apple cider vinegar; 12 ice cubes; 1½ tablespoons kosher salt; 1 small sweet onion, halved and thinly sliced

Preparation info

Makes about
1 quart

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Bacon Bible

By Peter Sherman and Stephanie Banyas

Published 2019

About

Bread and butter pickles really are a happy marriage of sweet and tangy flavors thanks to hearty doses of sugar and cider vinegar. I serve these pickles on the side of every sandwich at BarBacon, and they really are one of my favorite things to make and eat.

Ingredients

4½ cups (about 1 pound/455 g) thinly sliced (about ¼-inch/6-mm) Kirby cucumbers

Preserve
Vegan
Gluten-free
Wedding/Marriage

Method

In a large bowl, combine the cucumbers, onion, salt, and ice cubes and let sit at room temperature for 2 hours. Transfer the cucumber mixture to a colander and rinse thoroughly under cold water. Drain well and return to the bowl.

Put the vinegar, sugar, mustard seeds, celery seeds, and turmeric in a medium saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring until the sugar dissolv