14-Day Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

cucumbers
2 c. salt
1 gal. water
2 tsp. alum
1 qt. water
1 qt. vinegar
4 c. sugar
1 tsp. pickling spice, tied in cheesecloth
drained pickling syrup
sugar

Preparation

Heat the 2 cups salt and 1 gallon of water and pour into a crock.
Soak clean, whole cucumbers in this solution for 7 days. Weigh cucumbers under brim with a plate.
Remove scum each day. Remove cucumbers from brim; wash and soak in clean water for 24 hours.
Bring to a boil the alum and 1 quart of water.
Slice cucumbers and cover with this boiling solution.
Let slices soak 2 hours; remove.
Wash and cool with ice water.
Drain well.