Best-Ever Bread-and-Butters

Name: Best-Ever Bread-and-Butters
Yield: Makes 8 pints
Ingredients: ½ tsp. white pepper (optional); 1 tsp. ground turmeric (optional); 1 tblsp. ground ginger; 2 tblsp. mustard seeds; 1 tblsp. celery seeds; 4 c. sugar; 1 qt. vinegar; 2 qts. sliced onions; Ice cubes; ½ c. salt; 4 qts. sliced cucumbers (40 to 50)

Preparation info

Makes
8 pints

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1972

About

The ice cubes help keep the thin cucumber slices from breaking

Ingredients

4 qts. sliced cucumbers (40 to 50)
½ c. salt
Ice cubes

Preserve
Sauce
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Gently stir salt into thinly sliced cucumbers. Cover with ice cubes; let stand 2 or 3 hours or until cucumbers are crisp and cold. Add more ice if it melts. Drain; add onions.
Combine remaining ingredients; bring quickly to a boil and boil 10 minutes.
Add cucumber and onion slices and bring to boiling point. Pack at once in hot jars. Adjust lids. Proces