No Cook Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

16 lb. whole cucumbers
salt
1/2 box alum
distilled vinegar
10 lb. sugar
pickling spices

Preparation

Put
cucumbers
in wide mouth jars.
Soak in salt water that will
float
an egg, 14 days.
Do not trim ends of cucumbers. Take
out
of
salt
water, wash good and slice.
Cover with water;
add alum and soak overnight.
Cover with vinegar. Soak
6 hours.
Drain
vinegar
off good.
Using 10 pounds of sugar,
pack in big mouth jars or containers, putting layer of pickles;
layer of sugar; adding pickling spices all along, as much
as
you like.
Cover containers with wax paper or Saran Wrap,
then
put lid
on.
Do not seal tight.
The sugar will melt and cover with juice.