Preacher Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

15 cucumbers (3 or 4 inches long)
1 tsp. alum
4 c. cider vinegar
8 c. white sugar
1 stick cinnamon
2 tsp. mixed spices
5 tsp. salt (not iodized)

Preparation

Put the cucumbers in stone jar.
Pour boiling water over for 3 days (change).
Put alum over cukes on the fourth day and cover with boiling water.
Wash on fifth day and cut up in 1/2 inch or thicker slices and put back in jar.
Bring the vinegar, sugar, cinnamon, mixed spices and salt to a boil and pour over the cukes in the jar.
Makes 4 gallon jars - 1/2 bushel.