Title: Ice-Water Pickles
Categories: Pickle Cucumber Vegetable
Yield: 5 Servings

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

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.

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