Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. sliced cucumbers
2 c. canning salt
1 bottle alum powder
4 qt. sugar
2 1/2 qt. vinegar
4 Tbsp. pickling spice, tied up in clean cloth

Preparation

Put sliced cucumbers in jugs.
Boil 1 gallon of water and salt; pour over cucumbers.
Let set for 1 week.
Pour off water. Add 1 gallon of boiling water and alum powder.
Pour over cucumbers; let set 24 hours.
Drain and rinse.
Add 1 gallon of plain boiling water to cucumbers.
Let set overnight.
Add together the sugar, vinegar and pickling spice; boil together. Pour over cucumbers in jug.
Let set for 3 days.
Drain and save vinegar.
Pack cucumbers in jars.
Heat vinegar and pour over cucumbers and seal.