Bread and Butter Pickles

I'm not entirely sure why these are called "Bread and Butter Pickles"... that conjures all sorts of weird images.

Bread and Butter Pickles

1 qt cucumbers, sliced

3 or 4 onions, sliced

1 red pepper, sliced

- Soak above ingredients in 1/4 cup salt and water for 3 hours.

- Drain well.

Syrup

pinch of cloves

1/2 tsp mustard seed

1 1/2 cup brown sugar

1 1/2 cup cider vinegar

1 tsp celery seed

1 tsp tumeric

- Bring syrup to a boil.

- Add cucumber mix to syrup.

- Bring slowly back to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes.

- Put in canning jars.