Sweet Cucumber Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. cucumbers
2 Tbsp. coarse salt (fine salt will not work)
1 tsp. alum
6 Tbsp. pickling spices
approximately 1/2 gal. vinegar

Preparation

Wash cucumbers; pack in gallon jar.
Add salt, spices and alum.
Cover with vinegar.
Cover the lid of jar with waxed paper. Let set for 6 weeks.
Take out of vinegar (throw the vinegar away).
Slice the cucumbers and to 1 pint of pickles add 1 cup of sugar.
Pack pickles back in gallon jar and seal.
Shake often and the sugar will melt and make a syrup.