Ice Cream Pail Pickles (from Willing Workers cook book, revised)
4 medium onions, sliced
1 gallon sliced cucumbers (unpeeled) (one ice cream pail full)
Brine
4 cups sugar
2 cups vinegar
1/3 cup pickling salt/coarse salt
1 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 1/2 tsp ground celery seed
1 1/2 tsp mustard seed

Slice onions and cucumbers and place in clean ice cream pail.  Combine remaining ingredients in large sauce pan.  Heat until boiling – stir until sugar and salt are dissolved.  Pour hot brine over cucumbers and onions.  Cover and store in refrigerator.
Will keep for at least 3 months.

can use large over grown cucumbers for this recipe

Stir and heat brine until sugar is dissolved