Ice Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. cucumbers
1 c. salt
2 Tbsp. alum
vinegar
pickling spice
9 c. sugar

Preparation

To cucumbers, add salt and cover with water.
Let it stand for 4 days.
Drain and rinse 3 times.
Add alum, cover with water and let stand 24 hours.
Drain and rinse 3 times, cover with vinegar and let stand for 10 days.
Drain and add pickling spice and 3 cups sugar.
Add 3 cups sugar the next day and 3 more the next day after.
Heat and pack in jars, if desired.
Will keep just covered in the cabinet.