Crisp Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

8 to 12 medium size cucumbers (these should be freshly picked)
4 c. vinegar
5 tsp. salt
8 c. sugar
1 Tbsp. pickling spice

Preparation

Place cucumbers in deep crockery pot and pour boiling water over them each day for 4 days.
On the 5th day, slice cucumbers into chunks.
Mix the vinegar, salt, sugar and spices, keeping the solution cold.
Pour over cucumber chunks and let stand 2 days. On 3rd day, pour vinegar solution into large saucepan and heat. Do not let it boil.
Pack pickles into jars and pour hot solution over them to fill jars; seal.