Lime Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

9 lb. pickles, sliced
2 gal. water
2 c. agriculture hydrated lime
2 qt. white vinegar
4 1/2 lb. granulated sugar
1 Tbsp. salt
1 tsp. celery seed (rounded)
1 tsp. pickling spice (rounded)

Preparation

Mix pickles, water and lime.
Stir a couple of times and soak 24 hours.
After soaking, rinse pickles 3 times.
Add to pickles the vinegar, sugar, salt, celery seed and pickling spice.
Let set overnight.
Then cook 35 minutes and jar, open kettle method. Makes about 6 quarts.