Recipe: Quick Sweet Pickles

Title: Quick Sweet Pickles
Categories: Preserves, Pickles, Vegetables
Yield: 7 pints

6 lb Cucumbers
1 lg Sweet red pepper; cut into
-- strips
1 sm Onion, sliced
2 ea Garlic cloves
1 1/2 c Pickling salt
2 qt Crushed ice
3 c Sugar
1 qt White vinegar
2 tb Mustard seeds

Wash cucumbers; remove 1/4-inch from ends. Cut into 1/4-inch slices.
Combine cucumbers, red pepper, onion, and garlic in a large bowl; add
salt, and stir well. Pack ice over cucumbers; cover and let stand 3
hours. Remove garlic; rinse, and drain.

Combine remaining ingredients in a large Dutch oven; bring to a boil.
Add vegetables and reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes. Pack
cucumber mixture into hot, sterilized pint jars, leaving 1/2 inch
headspace. Wipe jar rims. Cover at once with metal lids, and screw
on bands. Process in boiling water bath 10 minutes.

H.F. Bowman in "Southern Living" July, 1987 Posted by Jeff Pruett