4 Day Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

whole, clean cucumbers
2 c. salt
alum
2 c. vinegar to 1 c. water
1/2 c. cloves
about 5 lb. sugar to each gal.

Preparation

Fill glass gallon jar with whole clean cucumbers.
Dissolve salt in warm water; pour over cucumbers.
Let it stand 24 hours. Pour off brine.
Dissolve 3/4 alum in hot water.
Pour over cucumbers.
Let it stand 24 hours.
Pour off brine.
Put cucumbers in clear water for 24 hours.
Boil vinegar and water with cloves for 20 minutes.
Tie cloves in bag while boiling.
Pour this mixture in over cucumbers.
Let it stand 24 hours.
Pour off vinegar.
Rinse cukes.
Put layer of sugar in jar.
Slice cukes in 1 layer, then put sugar, then cukes.