Cucumbers and onions. If you heat the dressing, be sure to cool it before adding to cucumbers). Add cucumbers and onions to dressing. Mom's Cucumber and Onions is an old fashioned recipe featuring garden vegetables.
To make this recipe easier, I recommend the use of a mandoline slicer.
It makes fast work of the peeled cucumbers and onions, plus cuts everything into uniform slices.
Add cucumbers and onion to vinegar mixture.
You can have Cucumbers and onions using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Cucumbers and onions
- Prepare 1 of cucumber.
- You need 1 of medium yellow onion.
- You need 1/2 cup of sugar in the raw - this is just a preference of mine.
- It's 1 cup of apple cider vinegar.
- It's 1/2 tsp of pickling spice.
- Prepare 1/4 of +tsp of celery seeds.
- You need 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
Stir to ensure all pieces are coated evenly. Slice cucumbers and onion in a bowl. For my family, I cut the onion rings into half. Pour apple cider vinegar over the cucumbers and onions.
Cucumbers and onions step by step
- I used a mandoline because it will slice very thin and quickly on the onions and cucumbers..
- In a small stainless mixing bowl add sugar and vinegar heat on low to dissolve the sugar..
- In a larger bowl add vinegar mixture to cucumbers and onions. Add pickling spice, celery seeds and lemon juice stir and refrigerate for at least two hours.
- Enjoy. Cuz I will.
Peel cucumbers and slice to your liking. Combine vinegar, water, sugar, salt, and garlic and pour over cucumbers and onions. Slice the cucumber in thin rounds. Peel and slice the onion in thin slices and separate. Put the cucumber and onion alternately in your jar/container.
