Sweet Pickle Chips

Ingredients

• 6 lb small cucumbers
• 1 large sweet red pepper chopped
• 1 onion sliced and separated into rings
• 2 cloves garlic
• 34 c pickling salt
• 2 qt crushed ice
• 4 c sugar
• 3 12 c vinegar 5 acidity
• 2 Tbsp mustard seed

Directions

1. Wash cucumbers trim ends
2. Cut cucumbers into 14-inch slices
3. Combine cucumber slices red pepper onion and garlic in a
4. large
5. bowl
6. add salt and stir well
7. Pack crushed ice over cucumberscover
8. and
9. let stand 24 hours
10. Drain well Rinse cucumber
11. mixture
12. severaltimes
13. in cold water drain well Remove
14. and discard garlic
15. Pack cucumber mixture into hot sterilized jars leaving 12 inch headspace