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Bread And Butter Pickles

A sweet old-fashioned bread and butter pickle recipe made with sliced cucumbers, onions, vinegar, sugar, mustard seed, celery seed, and turmeric — salt-soaked, gently heated in a tangy brine, then packed into clean jars and sealed at once.

Catalog maintained by Our Midwest Recipe Box Editorial Team · Updated August 4, 2026

Prep30 min
Cook10 min
Servesvaries
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At the stove

Make the recipe

  1. Slice 25 Slice12 cucumbers. onions.
  2. Soak cucumbers Combine sugar, and onions in ice turmeric,vinegar, water with 1/2 cup mustard seed, and celery seed in a pot. salt for 3 hrs.
  3. Add the Heat the brine to cucumbers boiling. and onions.
  4. Heat 2 min. Fill clean jars Do not and seal allow to boil. atonce.
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