Sweet Cucumber Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

16 lb. cucumbers
10 lb. sugar
1/2 box alum (1 1/2 oz.)
1 gal. vinegar (red or white)
7 boxes pickling spices
salt water to float an egg

Preparation

Soak
cucumbers in salt water 14 days.\tRemove slime on top every
couple
of
days.
Weight
down
so\tcucumbers are covered. Remove,
rinse
and
slice
thin\tand
round.
Soak overnight in\talum water.
Rinse and cover with vinegar for 6 hours.\tThrow away
vinegar.
Place
a
layer of cucumbers, a layer
of sugar and a layer of pickling spices until container is
3/4
full. Cover.
In\ta few days the sugar will melt and make
syrup\tto cover
pickles.
Leave in container or put in jars\tand cover top. Do not process.
Keeps indefinitely.
No need to refrigerate.