Bread and Butter Pickles

Bread and butter pickles are Raven's favorite pickles and I love them too. A girlfriend and I had a bread and butter war a few years ago and yours truly won. How you may ask???? I know the secret to a crisp bread and butter pickle. Want to know my secret??? Ice and salt, that's it. You MUST ICE YOUR SLICED CUCUMBERS AND ONIONS DOWN WITH KOSHER SALT. If you do this I promise you will have crisp bread and butter pickles. This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek today.


Needed:

25 Kirby Cucumbers-sliced 1/4 inch thick
5 white onions-peeled and cut into 1/8 inch thick rings
1 cup kosher salt
5 cups sugar
5 cups apple cider vinegar
4 T mustard seed
2 T turmeric
Lots of ice!!
Jars


Wash and slice cucumbers and onions. Let stand 3 hours in the ice and kosher salt. Now mix vinegar, sugar, spices and heat until hot, drain cucumbers and onions and then pack into hot jars. Pour enough syrup in to cover cucumbers and seal. Process in a hot water bath for 12 minutes. Let pickles set for about 2 weeks before eating.

Quick Pickles

This a favorite around here. I used all garden produce but this is just as good made with store bought produce. It is great to have with almost any meal and there is no canning involved!! This is What's Cookin (not cookin) on Beaty's Creek.

Needed:

6 Cucumbers-peeled and sliced
1 purple onion-peeled and sliced
3 tomatoes-did not have tomatoes this time but we usually add them in
3 cups apple cider vinegar
1 cup sugar

Mix sugar into vinegar until completely dissolved. Now pour over cucumbers and onion slices. Place in fridge for a couple of hours. Just as good the next day.