Icicle Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. cucumbers, cut in small pieces
1 gal. boiling water
1 pt. salt
1 gal. boiling water
2 Tbsp. alum
16 c. sugar
8 c. vinegar
1 box pickling spices, tied in cloth

Preparation

Pour 1 gallon boiling water over the cucumbers.
Add the salt. Let stand for 1 week, stirring each day.
Drain water off.
Add 1 gallon boiling water and the alum.
Let stand 24 hours.
Drain. Make a syrup of the sugar, vinegar and pickling spices.
Bring to boil; pour over pickles.
Drain and heat syrup for 3 mornings. Next morning:
Heat syrup and can or keep in a refrigerator in jar.