Daddy'S Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

enough whole cucumbers to fill two gallon jars
4 Tbsp. pickling spice
4 Tbsp. salt
4 Tbsp. powdered alum
1 gal. vinegar

Preparation

Wash and put whole cucumbers into two gallon jars.
Mix spice, salt and alum into vinegar and pour over cucumbers.
Put lids on and let them set for 90 days.
Then take them out of juice and slice them as desired.
Sprinkle 8 or 9 cups of sugar to one gallon of cut up pickles.
Let stand overnight.
The sugar will draw out the juice.
Put them back in jars.
They do not have to be sealed.