Cucumber Sweet Pickles - cucumbers

Method

• Cover whole cucumbers and soak for 7 days in brine water using 4 cups salt.
• Rinse cucumbers.
• Cut and place back in churn with 2 large boxes of alum with just enough water to cover cucumbers for 2 days.
• Take out of alum water and drain.
• Put back into churn with vinegar for 1 day.
• Drain vinegar and place back into churn:
• layer of pickles, layer of sugar, 10 pounds of sugar.
• Midway up churn, place a cloth with bag and 1 box pickling spice.
• Let stand for a week or more, mixing by hand every day.
• Then put in jars with a few drops green food coloring to keep pretty and green.