Cucumber Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 gal. cucumbers
4 c. salt
10 lb. sugar
1 box pickling spice
1 gal. vinegar

Preparation

Cover whole cucumbers and soak for 7 days in brine water using 4 cups salt.
Rinse cucumbers.
Cut and place back in churn with 2 large boxes of alum with just enough water to cover cucumbers for 2 days.
Take out of alum water and drain.
Put back into churn with vinegar for 1 day.
Drain vinegar and place back into churn:
layer of pickles, layer of sugar, 10 pounds of sugar.
Midway up churn, place a cloth with bag and 1 box pickling spice.
Let stand for a week or more, mixing by hand every day.
Then put in jars with a few drops green food coloring to keep pretty and green.