Refrigerator Bread & Butter Pickles

These are by far my favorite sweet pickles. I worked on this recipe for years before I perfected it. Some times we use the spices and brine to make pickled onions or sweet relish.

• Ready In: 10 mins
• Serves: 6
• Yields: 1 quart

Ingredients

• Pickling liquid

• 2  cups white vinegar
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar

• For each quart jar add

• 2  teaspoons kosher salt
• 1  teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1  teaspoon  whole mixed pickling spice
• 1⁄4 teaspoon celery seed
• 1  onion, thinly sliced

Directions

1. Pour sugar and vinegar in a small sauce pan. Stir over medium heat just until sugar is dissolved. Cool to room temperature.
2. Put salt and spices in a quart jar.
3. Fill jar with layers of cucumber slices and onion to within 1/2" of the rim.
4. Pour brine over everything leaving 1/2" of head space.
5. Seal and refrigerate for at least 3 days.
6. These will keep for up to 6 months in the refrigerator.