Cucumber Lime Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

7 cucumbers
2 c. Mrs. Wages pickling lime
2 gal. water
syrup
2 qt. vinegar
1 Tbsp. salt
8 c. sugar
few drops green food coloring, if desired
pickling spice

Preparation

Slice cucumbers crosswise.
Mix pickling lime and water, add cucumbers and soak 24 hours in crockery or enamel ware (do not use aluminum ware).
Stir occasionally in lime water.
Remove from lime water and rinse in 3 cool waters.
Soak 3 additional hours in ice and water.
Remove carefully to drain.
Mix vinegar, salt, sugar and food coloring.
Stir until dissolved.
Pour over cucumbers.
Let sit 5 or 6 hours or overnight.
Add pickling spice to taste (may use whole cloves or allspice).
Boil mixture for 35 minutes.
Fill sterilized jars with cucumber slices and pour syrup over cucumbers leaving 1/8-inch head space, then seal jars.