24-Hour Cucumber Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

7 lb. cucumber
4 Tbsp. lime
1/2 c. salt
1 box alum
1/2 box pickling spice
4 lb. plus 1 c. sugar
2 qt. vinegar

Preparation

Cut cucumbers in thin slices and soak in lime water for 12 to 14 hours.
Wash and soak in salt water for four hours.
Bring to a boil in strong alum water.
Pour off alum water and dip in hot boiling water.
Combine spices (in a bag), sugar, vinegar and cucumbers and simmer for 25 minutes.
Let cool.
Pack in jars and seal.
Makes 10 to 11 pints.