Icicle Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 small box spices
2 gal. cucumbers
1/2 gal. vinegar
2 Tbsp. alum
1 pt. salt
8 pt. sugar
1 gal. water

Preparation

Pour salt over cucumbers.
Bring 1 gallon of water to boil; pour over cucumbers.
Stir each day for 7 days.
Remove cucumbers and wash.
Put back into jar and pour alum over cucumbers.
Bring 1 gallon of water to boil and pour over cucumbers and alum. Remove from alum water next day.
First day, put on 1/2 gallon vinegar, 8 pints sugar and spices.
Second day, pour off and bring syrup to boiling point.
Pour over cucumbers.
Third day, do same as second day.
Fourth day, heat syrup.
Put pickles in jars and pour syrup over pickles.