Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. sliced cucumbers
2 c. salt
4 Tbsp. alum
14 c. sugar
6 c. Heinz vinegar (5%)

Preparation

Put the 2 cups of salt in 1 gallon of water and boil.
Pour over cucumbers while hot.
Let stand 5 days.
Wash off.
Add the alum to 1 gallon water and boil.
Pour over cucumbers.
Let stand 24 hours.
Take out; wash in boiling water.
Drain good.
Add sugar and vinegar; boil this.
Pour over cucumbers.
Let stand 24 hours. Second day, drain vinegar off and reheat.
Put cucumbers in jars and seal in water bath 5 minutes.