Kitchen Floor Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 Tbsp. alum
2 Tbsp. salt
1 c. whole pickling spices
4 c. vinegar
4 c. sugar

Preparation

Use small to medium sized cucumbers.
Pack tightly in a gallon jar.
Add alum, salt, pickling spices and vinegar and fill the rest of the way with water.
Cap and let set for one month.
Be sure jar is glass or plastic.
At the end of one month remove from jar and wash thoroughly.
(Be sure to wash the jar too.)
Cut in chunks and put back in jar.
Add sugar.
Cap and shake jar.
Shake until cucumbers are covered with juice.
Pickles are ready to eat. Refrigerate.