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Ingredients
- whole, clean cucumbers
- 2 c. salt
- alum
- 2 c. vinegar to 1 c. water
- 1/2 c. cloves
- about 5 lb. sugar to each gal.
Method
- Fill glass gallon jar with whole clean cucumbers.
- Dissolve salt in warm water; pour over cucumbers.
- Let it stand 24 hours. Pour off brine.
- Dissolve 3/4 alum in hot water.
- Pour over cucumbers.
- Let it stand 24 hours.
- Pour off brine.
- Put cucumbers in clear water for 24 hours.
- Boil vinegar and water with cloves for 20 minutes.
- Tie cloves in bag while boiling.
- Pour this mixture in over cucumbers.
- Let it stand 24 hours.
- Pour off vinegar.
- Rinse cukes.
- Put layer of sugar in jar.
- Slice cukes in 1 layer, then put sugar, then cukes.
