14 Day Cucumber Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. cucumbers, sliced
1 pt. salt
1 piece blue stone (size of a pea)
1 piece alum
1 qt. vinegar
5 c. sugar
2 Tbsp. pickling spice

Preparation

Cover cucumbers and salt with water; let cucumbers sit in water for 9 days.
Drain off water and then cover with boiling water with blue stone for 1 day.
Drain off and cover with boiling water and alum for 1 day.
Drain off and cover with vinegar, sugar and spice; heat to boiling.
Cover for 3 days and put in jars and seal on third day.