9 Day Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

pickles
salt water
1 c. vinegar
2 heaping Tbsp. alum
sugar
vinegar
whole allspice
cinnamon sticks

Preparation

Scrub pickles and place in salt water strong enough to float an egg.
Let set 3 days.
On the third day, drain and place pickles in clean water and soak three days.
On the sixth day, drain and slice pickles and make a solution of 1 cup vinegar, alum and enough water to cover pickles.
Heat in this solution until water turns green, then drain.
For each 2 gallons of pickles, make syrup of 8 cups of sugar, 1 quart of vinegar, 2 tablespoons whole allspice and 1 1/2 sticks of cinnamon.
Pour syrup over pickles while hot, let stand 3 days then heat pickles in syrup and can in jars.