Icicle Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. pickles
1 pt. salt
1 gal. cold water
4 Tbsp. alum
2 qt. vinegar
7 pt. (5 lb.) sugar
handful pickling spices

Preparation

Make pickles.
Cover with salt and cold water.
Let set 2 days. Pour off.
Cover with boiling water.
Let set 24 hours.
Pour off. Add alum and cover with boiling water.
Let set 24 hours.
Boil vinegar, sugar and pickling spices.
Put pickles in after draining well.
Let set 24 hours.
Can the next day; hot pickles in hot jars or process 10 minutes.