World'S Best Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

14 lb. sliced cucumbers
salt
water
4 oz. alum
1 gal. vinegar
10 lb. sugar + 4 c.
pickling spices
pickling lime

Preparation

Soak sliced cucumbers overnight in 2 double handfuls of lime and water.
Next, soak 2 hours in clear water, then add alum and bring to a boil; drain.
Next, add vinegar and sugar.
Now tie a bag of mixed pickling spices and hang into syrup.
Boil for 30 minutes, then can.
Makes about 14 quarts.