bread and butter pickles
========================

16 cups sliced, unpeeled medium cucumbers
6 medium white onions, sliced (6 cups)
2 green peppers, sliced
1 sweet red pepper, sliced
3 cloves garlic, scored
1/3 cup pickling salt
cracked ice
5 cups sugar
3 cups cider vinegar
2 tablespoons mustard seed
1 & 1/2 teaspoons celery seed
1 & 1/2 teaspoons ground turmeric

Combine cucumber, onion, green and red peppers, and whole garlic cloves.
Add salt; cover with cracked ice.
Mix thoroughly.
Let stand for 3 hours; drain well.
Highly Optional? -- Discard garlic
Combine remaining ingredients; pour over cucumber mixture.
Bring to boiling.
Fill hot, clean pint jars with vegetables and liquid, leaving 1/2 inch
headspace.
Adjust lids.
Process in boiling water bath 5 minutes for pints.  (Start timing when
the water returns to boiling.)
Makes 8 pints.