6 Week Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

cucumbers (small)
bell peppers
banana peppers (sweet)
1 Tbsp. plain pickling salt
1 Tbsp. pickling spices
1 tsp. alum
vinegar
5 c. sugar

Preparation

You can use cucumbers, bell peppers or sweet banana peppers. Sweet banana is real good or you can mix them.
Wash and slice them.
Fill a gallon jug full.
Shake them down.
Put pickling salt, pickling spices and alum tied up in a cloth.
Put in jug and fill with vinegar and seal.
Count 6 weeks and write the date on lid.
When ready, drain off vinegar and fill with water and drain off twice.
Pour out in pan and add sugar and let stand 3 or 4 hours.
Then fill jars with the pickles; cover with syrup and seal.