Grandmother's Mixed Pickle
1 lg. bunch celery, cut
2
heads cauliflower
3 lb. carrots
3 red peppers
3 green peppers
1
dozen sm. pickling onions (or 4
others, cut in pieces)
1 qt. fresh lima
beans
Cook all vegetables. Separate and drain except save the celery
water to add to brine.
Mix all
together and add 1 quart sweet pickles.
Mix 2 cups
sugar, 3 cups vinegar and 3 cups celery water.
Put 3
tablespoons mixed pickling spice and 2 tablespoons celery seed.
Tie in cloth bag and
put in brine. Heat to boiling, add vegetables, boil 10 minutes.
Put in jars and seal.
Discard spice bag.
