Mary Jacob'S Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

cucumber slices
1 c. iodized salt
2 Tbsp. alum
apple vinegar
2 Tbsp. spices
9 c. sugar

Preparation

Fill a gallon jug with cucumber slices; add salt.
Finish filling jug with water. Shake well.
Let set 4 days, shaking each day.
At the end of the fourth day, drain off water. Rinse 3 times with cucumbers in jug.
Mix alum with enough water to cover cucumbers.
Let stand 24 hours.
Drain and rinse 3 times.
Cover with pure apple vinegar (no water).
Let stand 10 days.
Drain off vinegar (add spices).
Add 3 cups of sugar each day for 3 days (9 cups in all).
Shake each day.
Keep indefinitely.
Do not seal or refrigerate.