Tura's Pickles

Name: Tura's Pickles
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 4 h 15 min
Yield: 6 quarts
Ingredients: 4 quarts cucumbers, sliced; 4 onions, sliced; 2 green peppers, sliced; 1/3 cup pickling salt; 5 cups sugar; 3 cups vinegar; 2 tablespoons mustard seeds; 1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric; 1 1/2 teaspoons celery seeds

Submitted by Tandy Higgins

"This is a great way to use up all those cucumbers during the summer. I love the onions and peppers as well as the pickles themselves. Great to put on your grilled hamburgers! I use my food processor to speed things up. These taste very much like the pickles that my husbands grandmother, Tura Higgins, used to make."

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photo by Tandy Higgins

Ready In:: 4hrs 15mins
Ingredients:: 9
Yields:: 6 quarts

ingredients

4 quarts cucumbers, sliced
4 onions, sliced
2 green peppers, sliced
¹⁄₃ cup pickling salt
5 cups sugar
3 cups vinegar
2 tablespoons mustard seeds
1 ¹⁄₂ teaspoons turmeric
1 ¹⁄₂ teaspoons celery seeds

directions

Combine cucumbers, onions & green peppers.
Pour salt over the top and mix thoroughly.
Cover with ice and let stand for 3 hours.
Drain well.
Combine remaining ingredients and pour over cucumber mixture and bring to a boil.
Pour into sterilized jars and process in hot water bath for 10 minutes.
Sweet & Spicy Option: Omit the mustard seed & turmeric. Add 1 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper, 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes &1 teaspoon cayenne to the sugar/vinegar mixture.