Two Week Candied Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. sliced cucumbers
2 c. pickling salt
water
1 Tbsp. alum
6 c. vinegar
9 c. sugar
1 box stick cinnamon
1 tsp. celery seed
1 tsp. whole cloves

Preparation

Boil salt and 1 gallon water; pour over cucumbers in a crock jar.
Let stand 1 week.
Skim every day if necessary.
Second week, drain.
Heat 1 gallon fresh water and alum and pour over pickles in crock.
Do this for 3 days.
Fourth day, drain pickles. Heat vinegar, 5 cups sugar, box of stick cinnamon, celery seed and cloves.
Boil and pour over pickles.
Fifth day, drain same and add 2 cups sugar.
Bring to boil and pour over pickles.
Sixth day, drain and reheat liquid and add 1 cup sugar.
Return liquid to pickles.
Seventh day, drain and pack pickles in jars.
Reheat syrup and 1 cup mor sugar.
Pour boiling liquid over pickles in jars.
Clean tops of jars and seal with lids.