Fourteen Day Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. sliced cucumbers (1/4 inch thick) or small whole ones
gal. water
pt. salt (not iodized)

Preparation

Use a churn or some type of crock pot (No Plastic). Heat water to boiling and add salt. Dissolve and pour over cucumbers. Weigh cucumbers down in salt water so they are covered. Let stand seven days. Drain off water. Heat
1 gal. water to boiling and pour over drained cucumbers. Let stand for 24 hours and drain that water off. Add fresh boiling water with alum the size of a walnut and let stand twenty four hours. Drain off this mixture.