Icicle Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. cucumbers
1 pt. pickling salt
2 tsp. alum
8 pt. sugar
5 pt. vinegar

Preparation

Place sliced cucumbers in gallon jugs; pour salt over cucumbers, then fill with water.
Let stand for 7 days.
After 7 days, pour this off.
Put 1 teaspoon of alum in each jug, then refill with fresh hot water.
Let this stand overnight; pour off. Mix sugar and vinegar; stir well and pour over pickles.
Pour off and heat 3 mornings.
On the third morning, put pickles in pint jars.
Seal.