Sweet And Sour Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

whole medium-size cucumbers (to fill 1 gal. jar)
1 gal. cider vinegar
5 lb. sugar

Preparation

Wash cucumbers
carefully
with
a
cloth.
Pack into a wide-mouth jar.
Cover
completely
with dark vinegar.
Cover, date and set aside for 80 days.
Add more vinegar if any seems to evaporate.
Pour
off
vinegar.
Do
not
wash
cucumbers. Slice cucumbers into
1/2 to 3/4 inch slices.
Pour sugar over them. Stir and
let
stand
for
1 hour.
Put into sterilized jars and adjust
lids.
Submerge
jars in boiling water for 10 minutes. Remove and
cool.
As the pickle mixture stands, the residual vinegar on the pickles mixes with the sugar and forms a syrup. Makes 8 pints.