Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

cucumbers
4 Tbsp. alum
4 Tbsp. salt
4 Tbsp. pickling spice
vinegar
3 lb. sugar

Preparation

Wash cucumbers, dry them and put in a gallon jar. Add the alum, salt and pickling spice.
Fill jar with vinegar.
Leave in jar 3 months. Drain off vinegar.
Slice cucumbers and put back in jar. Add the sugar and let sugar melt.