Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe

Name: Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe
Ingredients: 16–18 cucumbers, sliced into thin rounds, preferably using a mandoline but a very sharp kitchen knife will do; 5 large white or yellow onions; ½ cup pickling or kosher salt (some table salt has non-caking additives that will turn the juice murky); 2 quarts cold water; 5 cups sugar; 5 cups apple cider vinegar; 2 tablespoons mustard seed; 1½ teaspoons celery seed; 1½ teaspoons turmeric; 2 large red bell peppers, seeded, stemmed and very thinly sliced; 10 pint-size canning jars with lids and rings

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The name “Bread and Butter Pickles” has at least two different origin stories. One is that during the Great Depression, people put them between slices of butter

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Ingredients

16–18 cucumbers, sliced into thin rounds, preferably using a mandoline but a very sharp kitchen knife will do
5 large white or yellow onions
½ cup pickling or kosher salt (some table salt has non-caking additives that will turn the juice murky)
2 quarts cold water
5 cups sugar
5 cups apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons mustard seed
1½ teaspoons celery seed
1½ teaspoons turmeric
2 large red bell peppers, seeded, stemmed and very thinly sliced
10 pint-size canning jars with lids and rings