Ice Pickles

Name: Ice Pickles
Ingredients: 1 gal. cucumbers, sliced paper thin; 1/2 c. salt per gal. cucumbers; 5 c. sugar; 1/2 tsp. turmeric; 1/2 tsp. ground cloves (whole); 1 tsp. celery seed (whole); 2 tsp. mustard seed (whole)

7 ingredients

12 steps

Ingredients

1 gal. cucumbers, sliced paper thin
1/2 c. salt per gal. cucumbers
5 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. turmeric
1/2 tsp. ground cloves (whole)
1 tsp. celery seed (whole)
2 tsp. mustard seed (whole)

Directions

1

Put cucumbers in large pan and cover with ice.
2

Just cover top.
3

Put in 1/2 cup salt per gallon of cucumbers.
4

Let set for 3 hours.
5

Drain off water and rinse off salt water.
6

Mix remaining ingredients together.
7

Mix well.
8

Let come almost to boil.
9

Keep stirring with wooden spoon.
10

Pack cucumbers loosely in jars. Cover cucumbers with hot liquid up close to the top.
11

If you want to keep pickles longer than 1 year, put in pressure canner.
12

Let steam 10 minutes with peacock up.