8 Day Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pt. salt
1 gal. water
75 medium-sized cucumbers
alum
1 gal. vinegar
8 c. sugar
cinnamon bark (5 cents worth in original recipe)
bunch of horseradish
bag allspice

Preparation

Dissolve salt in water and pour over cucumbers.
Let these stand 7 days, stirring occasionally.
Remove brine and pour scalding water over pickles and let remain 1 day.
Drain and cover with scalding water again in which a chunk of alum the size of a walnut has been dissolved.
Drain again and cover with vinegar (not too strong) in which sugar, cinnamon bark, horseradish and allspice have been added.
Repeat each day for 3 days.
These may be kept in open jar or canned.