3 Month Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

whole pickling cucumbers
2 Tbsp. alum
2 Tbsp. canning salt
4 c. sugar
1/4 c. pickling spice
1 gal. vinegar
1 gal. jar

Preparation

Wash cucumbers and fill a gallon jar.
Add alum, salt, spice and enough vinegar to cover the cucumbers.
Set aside for 3 months. Then pour off vinegar and slice about 1/4- inch thick; layer slices back in the jar.
Add sugar; turn jar back and forth or shake until sugar is dissolved.
They are ready to eat.