Recipe: Sunset's Pickles - Bread and Butter Slices

Bread and Butter Slices
From Sunset's-Canning, Freezing and Drying (1981)

2 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups cider vinegar
1 cup water
1 tsp. each salt and celery seed
1tbl mustard seed
1 1/2 tbsp. whole mixed pickling spice
3 1/2 lbs. med-sized cucumbers (unpeeled), sliced 1/4-inch thick

Prepare 5 pint-sized canning jars.

In a 5-qt pot, combine sugar, vinegar, water, salt, celery seeds, mustard seed, and pickling spice. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Add cucumber slices to syrup. Return mixture to a boil, turning cucumbers gently to coat with syrup. Continue boiling for 1-1/2 minutes; remove from heat.

Fill one hot jar at a time with boiling hot mixture. Fill to within 1/8-inch of rim. Wipe rim with a damp cloth and screw on band as tight as you can. Continue with remaining jars. Store in refrigerator.