"Old Timer'S" 14 Day Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. salt to 1 gal. pickles
2 Tbsp. alum in 1/2 gal. water
5 lb. sugar to 2 gal. pickles
1 qt. plus 1 pt. dark vinegar to 2 gal. pickles

Preparation

Put 1 cup of salt to 1 gallon of pickles in water.
Boil 1 gallon of water.
Have pickles in jar; never take them out.
Put salt in the water.
Pour boiling hot water onto pickles and let set for 8 days.
On the eighth day, drain off water; rinse pickles in jar 2 or 3 times (just let water run over them).
Pour clear, boiling water over them and let set for 24 hours.
Drain this off and put 2 tablespoons of alum in 1/2 gallon of water.
Bring to a boil and pour over pickles.
Cover the pickles.
Let this set for 24 hours.
Drain and rinse as before.