Icicle Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 gal. sliced cucumbers
hot water
salt (pickling)
vinegar
alum
sugar
pickling spices

Preparation

Day 1:
One gallon sliced cucumbers, 1 cup of pickling salt. Fill jar with hot water.
Let cucumbers stand for 1 week in salt water, shaking every day.
Shake every day from Day 2 until Day 6. On the Day 7, drain salt water off.
Pour boiling water over pickles.