Ice-water Pickles

Total Time: 2 hrs 1 min

Ingredients

• 3 lbs cucumbers (4-inch)
• 5 medium onions
• 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
• 1 quart cider vinegar
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons pickling salt

Recipe

• 1 wash the cucumbers, quarter them lengthwise, and soak them in ice-water for 2 hours.
• 2 peel and slice the onions and pack them in the bottoms of 5 pint jars.
• 3 pack the cucumbers lengthwise in the jars.
• 4 combine the mustard seed, vinegar, sugar and salt, bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute.
• 5 fill the jars to overflowing with the boiling-hot syrup and seal.