14 Day Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

cucumbers
salt
water
alum
5 pt. vinegar
5 pt. sugar
stick cinnamon to taste

Preparation

Put in stone jar.
Cover
cucumbers with hot brine of 1 pint salt to 1
gallon of water.
Let stand seven days.\tDrain and cover with 1
tablespoon
alum
to 1 gallon of water.
Let stand 24 hours.
Drain.
Cut
every
pickle
and\tcover
with boiling water; let\tstand
24
hours,
drain.
Make
syrup\tof vinegar, sugar and
stick
cinnamon.
Boil this syrup and pour over pickles.
Heat this
syrup\tfor
3 mornings, adding 1 cup sugar each day and can the third day.