Ice-Water Pickles

Recipe Cuisine: Vegetables
Recipe Category: Vegetables
Recipe Serves: 5

Recipes Ingredients:

3 lb 4-inch Cucumbers
1 qt Cider Vinegar
5 ea Med. Onions
1 c Sugar
1 tb Mustard Seed
2 ts Pickling Salt

Recipe Instructions:

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. Makes 5 pints.