Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles

We used to make a lot of canned foods and put up jars of peaches
and tomato sauce when I was growing up. Somehow these refrigerator
pickles stand out in my mind as one of the best that I liked.

Ingredients:
Pickling cucumbers to fill a gallon jar
3 onions sliced
4 cups sugar
4 cups vinegar
1/3 cup plain salt
1 1/2 tsp each turmeric, mustard seed and celery seed

Directions:
Combine sugar and vinegar in small saucepan
over low heat to dissolve sugar. Add spices.
Pack sliced cucumbers and onions in jar very tight,
add liquid and spices, seal and refrigerate.

These bread and butter pickles are a wonderful little
side dish to set out with just about any meal,
but our first love will always be adding them to sandwiches.

Note: The refrigerator pickles don't need to marinate
very long at all before they're ready to eat,
usually just 24 hours or so.
As to how long they keep,I'd say...
the same as any other pickles in your refrigerator.
They might become more mushy than crisp
if you had them in the frig for a year,
but I've never known them to go bad.