Icicle Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. cucumbers (cut before measuring)
1 gal. boiling water
1 pt. salt
2 Tbsp. alum
1 gal. boiling water
8 pt. sugar
2 qt. vinegar
1 box pickling spices

Preparation

Pour 1 gallon of boiling water over cucumbers.
Add salt.
Let pickles stand for 1 week; stir every day.
Drain and add 1 gallon boiling water and alum.
Let stand 24 hours.
Drain and make a syrup of sugar, vinegar and pickling spices (put spices in a white cloth and tie it).
Heat syrup and pour over cucumbers for three mornings.
On the fourth morning, heat syrup and can cucumbers. Seal at once.