Lime Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gal. water
2 c. lime
7 lb. cucumbers, sliced
2 qt. vinegar
4 1/2 lb. sugar
1 tsp. celery seed
1 tsp. whole cloves
1 tsp. mixed spices
1 Tbsp. salt
2 tsp. green food coloring

Preparation

Soak the cucumber slices in the lime and water mixture for 24 hours.
Stir these gently with a wooden spoon, to keep lime from settling to the bottom, 5 or 6 times during the soaking period. Remove pickles from the lime water.
Wash well and soak 3 to 4 hours in plain cold water.
Remove pickles from this water; rinse again.
Mix vinegar mixture.
Put pickles in this mix.
Cover and let stand overnight.
Next boil pickles in vinegar mixture for 35 minutes.
Can in sterilized cans and seal.