Categories:Viewed: 90 - Published at: 2 years ago

Ingredients

  • cucumbers
  • salt
  • water
  • alum
  • 5 pt. vinegar
  • 5 pt. sugar
  • stick cinnamon to taste

Method

  • Put in stone jar.
  • Cover
  • cucumbers with hot brine of 1 pint salt to 1
  • gallon of water.
  • Let stand seven days. Drain and cover with 1
  • tablespoon
  • alum
  • to 1 gallon of water.
  • Let stand 24 hours.
  • Drain.
  • Cut
  • every
  • pickle
  • and cover
  • with boiling water; let stand
  • 24
  • hours,
  • drain.
  • Make
  • syrup of vinegar, sugar and
  • stick
  • cinnamon.
  • Boil this syrup and pour over pickles.
  • Heat this
  • syrup for
  • 3 mornings, adding 1 cup sugar each day and can the third day.