Crock Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 gal. cucumbers
2 gal. water
4 c. salt
1/2 c. alum
1 box pickling spice
1 gal. vinegar
10 lb. sugar

Preparation

Soak cucumbers in salt water for 6 days; drain.
Rinse in cold water.
Slice and soak in 1/2 cup alum to 1 1/2 gallons of water for 2 days.
Rinse alum water off.
Soak overnight in 1 gallon of vinegar; pour vinegar off.
Put pickling spice (tie up in cloth) in bottom of jar or crock.
Add 1 layer of cucumbers and 1 layer of sugar; repeat until you've used 10 pounds of sugar.