Eight-Day Bread and Butter Pickles

Title:
Eight-Day Bread and Butter Pickles

Yield:
1 Batch

Categories:
Pickles




Ingredients:





     8 qt Cucumbers


     4 c  Vinegar


     2 ts Pickling spice


     8 c  Sugar


     5 ts Salt






 Place cucumbers in a crock; pour boiling water over to cover each day for


 four days.  Use fresh water each day. Keep crock covered and cool. On the


 fifth day, cut cucumbers into 1/2" to 3/4" pieces. Mix other ingredients


 and bring to a boil.  Pour over cut-up cucumbers in crock. Reheat this


 syrup each day for four days and pour over cucumbers. Keep covered and cool


 at all other times.


 


 Pack cucumbers in jars and fill with heated syrup, leaving 1/2" headspace,


 then seal.


 


                                    -- Mary B. Harry


                                       Baltimore, MD


 


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