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Bread-and-Butter Pickles
Sweet-tangy cucumber and onion rounds in a mustard-seed brine: the sandwich-and-burger classic, canned for the pantry.
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Ingredients
one batchFrom the garden
- 3 lb pickling cucumbers, cut into ¼-inch rounds
- 2 medium yellow or white onions, halved and thinly sliced
From the pantry
- ¼ cup canning or pickling salt · for the ice-brine stage; most of it drains away
- 2½ cups sugar
- 2½ cups distilled white vinegar (5%) · the tested sugar-vinegar syrup: don't cut the vinegar
- 1½ tbsp mustard seed · celery seed (1 tsp) and ground turmeric (2 tsp) are the other classic additions if you keep them