Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. Mt. Olive sour pickles
2 c. vinegar
2 Tbsp. pickling spices
4 lb. sugar
2 tsp. mustard seed (optional)

Preparation

Pour 2 cups vinegar from jar of pickles into saucepan. Add the pickling spices and bring to a boil.
Let cool. Pour back into jar and let set for 4 days, shaking jar several times each day. Drain pickles on the fifth day well. Wipe pickles dry. Slice.
Layer pickles and sugar in a pan.
Let stand until sugar starts to melt. Stir gently until sugar is dissolved. Put pickles back into jar. (Mustard seed may be added.)