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Ingredients
- 16 lb. cucumbers
- 10 lb. sugar
- 1/2 box alum (1 1/2 oz.)
- 1 gal. vinegar (red or white)
- 7 boxes pickling spices
- salt water to float an egg
Method
- Soak
- cucumbers in salt water 14 days. Remove slime on top every
- couple
- of
- days.
- Weight
- down
- so cucumbers are covered. Remove,
- rinse
- and
- slice
- thin and
- round.
- Soak overnight in alum water.
- Rinse and cover with vinegar for 6 hours. Throw away
- vinegar.
- Place
- layer of cucumbers, a layer
- of sugar and a layer of pickling spices until container is
- 3/4
- full. Cover.
- In a few days the sugar will melt and make
- syrup to cover
- pickles.
- Leave in container or put in jars and cover top. Do not process.
- Keeps indefinitely.
- No need to refrigerate.
