Closet Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

cucumbers
distilled vinegar
oil of cloves
5 lb. sugar

Preparation

Fill
wide-mouth gallon jar with cucumbers.
Cover with distilled
vinegar.
Put
jar
in brown paper sack; set jar in closet for\t6 weeks.
At end of 6 weeks, drain and wash cucumbers. Slice
very
thin;
layer cucumbers and sugar in gallon jar.
Put back in closet.
About once a week, shake jar until sugar is dissolved.\tPlace cucumbers in pint jars.
Cover with the syrup drained from cucumbers to which 2 or 3 drops of oil of cloves has been added.
You do not need to seal jars.\tFive pounds of sugar is needed for this recipe.