Once you try homemade bread-and-butter pickles, you’ll never go back to the store-bought kind.

Learn how to make bread-and-butter pickles.

It will also use up all your leftover summer cucumbers, ensuring none go to waste.

Southern Living Bread and Butter Pickles

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Why Are They Called Bread-and-Butter Pickles?

She used a centuries-old recipe for sweet and sour pickles and labeled them as bread-and-butter pickles.

Top your nextburgerorsandwich, add topotato salad, or just snack on them right out of the jar.

Southern Living Bread and Butter Pickles ingredients

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Store opened jars in the refrigerator for up to three months.

Cover and let stand 3 hours.

Rinse with cold water.

Southern Living Bread and Butter Pickles ready to serve

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Add cucumbers and onion; bring to a boil.

Fill jars:

Pack hot cucumber mixture into hot jars, filling to 1/2 inch from top.

Remove air bubbles; wipe jar rims.

Southern Living Bread and Butter Pickles soaking the onions and cucumbers

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Cover at once with metal lids, and screw on bands.

Process, in 2 batches, in boiling-water bath 12 minutes; cool.

Chill pickles before serving.

Southern Living Bread and Butter Pickles making the brine for the pickles

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Eat refrigerator pickles within a few weeks for optimal freshness.

Southern Living Bread and Butter Pickles stirring the vegetables into the brine

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Southern Living Bread and Butter Pickles filling the jars

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Southern Living Bread and Butter Pickles in jars ready to eat

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