Paper Thin Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. cucumbers, sliced thin
1 pt. salt
1 gal. water
2 Tbsp. powdered alum
1/2 gal. vinegar
8 pt. sugar
3/4 box pickling spice

Preparation

Cover cucumbers with salt and 1 gallon boiling water.
Stir each day for 7 days.
Drain and with 1 gallon boiling water and 2 tablespoons powdered alum, let stand 24 hours.
Drain and mix in vinegar, sugar and pickling spices.
Boil and pour over cucumbers. Let stand 4 days.
Each day, drain off syrup and boil.
Pour over cucumbers.
Pack in jars.
Pour hot syrup over pickles in jars, then seal.