Bread and Butter Pickle Recipe

This bread and butter pickle recipe is easy to make. Great for topping sandwiches or just munching. A great sweet pickle to add to potato salad recipes too.

Prepare

Gather your canning supplies

water bath canner
canning jars
canning seals and rings
jar lifter
canning funnel
large pot
bowls
large spoons
sharp knife
towels and dish cloths
ladle
optional crinkle cutter or mandolin slicer

Ingredients

4 pounds pickling cucumbers,
2 pounds onions
1/3 cup canning salt
3 cups vinegar
2 cups sugar
2 T mustard seed
2 tsp turmeric
2 tsp celery seed
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp peppercorns

Start by preparing jars, and get water in your canner heating.
(see Water Bath Canning for full directions)

Procedure

bread and butter pickles slicing with mandolin

Wash cucumbers. Thinly slice both cucumbers and onions.

I like to use my pampered chef crinkle cutter for making crinkle slices.

I also have a mandolin slicer that I used this time. t is great for making thin even slices. It comes with a straight edge too but for this purpose I like the crinkly cuts.

sliced cucumbers
and onions for bread and butter pickles

sliced cucumbers
and onions for bread and butter pickles

Combine layers of cucumber onion and salt to a large bowl. Cover with Ice cubes and let sit for 1 - 2 hours.

Place vinegar, sugar, mustard seed, turmeric, celery seed, ginger and peppercorns in a large pot and bring to a boil.

Drain and rinse cucumber and onion. Add to vinegar mixture and return to a boil.

Pack into hot jars leaving 1/4 inch head space.

bread and butter pickles in jars

This will make about 7 pints. Remove air bubbles with a plastic knife or other small tool. I like to use an orange peeler.

Wipe rims clean and process according to water bath canning directions.

This makes 6 pints.