Faye'S Easy Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. cucumbers, cut crosswise
4 Tbsp. alum
2 Tbsp. plain salt
2 Tbsp. pickle spices
5 lb. sugar
vinegar

Preparation

Put cucumbers in a gallon jar.
Fill jar with vinegar, salt, alum and spices.
Leave for 8 weeks.
After 8 weeks, drain well; pour off vinegar and spices.
Add 5 pounds sugar to pickles. Sugar will dissolve and make syrup.
Refrigeration is not necessary.
Do not need to seal.