Title: Mabel's Bread and Butter Pickles
Categories: Pickle Blank
Yield: 12 Pints

6	qt	Cucumbers; sliced thin
6		Onions; chopped fine
3		Sweet peppers; cut fine
1/2	c	Salt
		;water, to cover
1	qt	Vinegar
8	c	Sugar [or less]
1	tb	Turmeric
1/2	c	Mustard seed
		Celery salt

Soak the chopped vegetables in 1/2 cup salt and water to cover for 3 hours. Prepare the pickling solution; combine and heat until the sugar dissolves. Drain brine from the vegetables and add to the sweetened vinegar mixture. Heat Just to the boiling point. Seal in sterilized jars.

From a hand written book of family recipes of Mabel [Nott] Weller, circa 1947. Posted by Jim Weller.

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