14 Day Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pt. coarse salt to 1 gal. water
2 tsp. powdered alum to each gal. hot water
cucumbers
5 pt. red vinegar
6 c. sugar
3 Tbsp. pickling spices
1/4 tsp. celery seed
2 pieces cinnamon bark (break in small pieces)

Preparation

Stir salt in water until salt is dissolved; pour over cucumbers.
Let stand for one week; drain well.
Add alum; soak 24 hours in the alum water; drain well.
Split cucumbers; let them drain.
Wash churn; dry it.