Sweet Pickles(Makes 9 Pints.) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

7 lb. pickles, soaked 4 days in brine (1 pt. salt to 1 gal. water)
2 c. vinegar
grape leaves
2 tsp. alum
3 pt. vinegar
3 lb. sugar
1 oz. allspice (whole)
blade mace
tsp. celery seed and mustard seed

Preparation

Soak in plain water 3 days.
Then cut each pickle in 1/2; put in kettle and cover with cold water with 2 cups vinegar.
Heat 2 hours with grape leaves and alum.
Remove pickles and put in jar and heat vinegar, sugar, 1 oz. allspice whole, blade mace (celery seed and mustard seed).
Heat vinegar 3 mornings.
Fourth morning, can.