Crystal Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

25 cucumbers
2 c. coarse salt
2 Tbsp. alum

Preparation

Wash cucumbers.
Put in a stone jar.
Put a brine over them made of 2 cups coarse salt to 1 gallon of water.
Don't boil the brine.
Place a plate over the pickles with a weight on it to hold the pickles in the brine.
Leave them for 2 weeks and skim the brine off every day.
When you take them out, drain and wash. Slice or chunk as desired and cover with cold water to which has been added 2 tablespoons alum.
Let stand 24 hours; drain and wash.
Make syrup.