Bread and Butter Pickles

 

Ingredients:

12 cucumbers cut into ¼ wedges or slices

6 onions cut into slices

½ cup kosher salt

ice water to cover

4 cups sugar

2 tsp fresh ginger peeled and sliced thin

2 tsp tumeric

2 tsp cracked black pepper

2 tsp corn starch

4 tsp mustard seeds

4 cups vinegar

Method:

·    Wash cucumbers well before cutting into ¼ wedges

·    Cut onions into slices

·    In a large container add cucumbers, onions salt and ice water and let rest in a cold place for 2 hours

·    after the two hours remove the cucumbers from the brine and taste for consistency of salt, if its needs more time leave it in the brine a little longer then place in mason jars with onions

·    in a large sauce pot bring to a boil sugar, ginger, tumeric

·    cracked black pepper, corn starch, mustard seeds and vinegar

·    once boiling poor over cucumbers and seal jars with lids but not too tight, and let cool naturally