Sweet Cucumber Pickle - cooking recipe

Ingredients

7 lb. cucumbers
2 c. pickling lime
5 lb. sugar
1 Tbsp. turmeric
2/3 c. salt
2 Tbsp. alum
2 qt. vinegar
pickling spice

Preparation

Slice cucumbers.
Soak 12 hours in lime water; rinse.
Soak 4 hours in salt water; rinse.
Soak 2 hours in clear water; drain. Bring to a boil in alum water.
Rinse in hot water.
Make syrup using sugar, vinegar, turmeric and pickling spices the size of an egg in cheesecloth.
Boil cucumber in syrup for 1/2 hour.
Cool and pack in sterilized jars.