Crisp Cucumber Sticks - cooking recipe

Ingredients

7 lb. cucumbers
2 gal. water
3 c. slack lime
1/2 tsp. alum
4 lb. sugar
3 pt. white vinegar
1 tsp. each: cloves, ginger, spices, celery seed, mace and cinnamon

Preparation

Slice and soak cucumbers in lime water 24 hours.
Drain and soak 4 hours in fresh water changing every hour.
Use alum in first water.
Boil sugar, vinegar and spices.
Pour hot over cucumbers.
Let stand overnight.
Next morning, boil 1 hour.
Seal in jars.