That sounds like a development of my mother's
nineteenth-century recipe for bread-and-butter pickles.
(Mother was twentieth-century, but I suspect that she got it
from *her* mother.)
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PBL's Bread and Butter Pickles
Use about two quarts of sliced pickles or same amount
pickles and sliced onions. Put about one-third cup salt on
pickles. Cover and weight after putting enough ice cubes
over to cover pickles when melted. Leave on counter. Next
morning, drain pickles. Heat enough water and about
one-half to three-fourths cup vinegar to cover with
about a teaspoon alum. Drop in pickles and keep at just
boiling point about ten minutes. Do not boil.
Drain again.
Fix enough vinegar and sugar equal parts to cover --
approximately a cup and a half of each. Add celery seed,
mustard seed, curry powder, turmeric, bay leaf, a snort
(1/10 tsp) of cayenne pepper or a fresh red pepper (hot).
Drop in pickles and stir occasionally till simmer stage.
Can or place in ref. + use.
Notes: I expanded most of the abbreviations. "Pickles"
means cucumbers. "Can" means the open-kettle method. Some
open-kettle cans will spoil, but if the pickles are
processed, none of them will be fit to eat. (With all that
vinegar, you don't need to worry about undetectable spoilage.)
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"Cover" by putting a ceramic plate face down in the
stainless-steel mixing bowl. A thick plate may be heavy
enough all by itself; if not, set something waterproof on it.
Any vegetable can be preserved by this recipe; I once grew a
row of giant garlic in my garden, sliced it up, and pickled
it (with, I think, no further seasoning). I gave a pint to
a friend; she thought I was joking when I told her it was
pickled garlic, and later told me that she didn't get no
lovin' like a kissin' and a huggin' for a long, long time.
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