Shake Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

cucumbers
pickling salt
2 Tbsp. alum
vinegar
pickling spice
sugar

Preparation

Fill gallon jar with sliced cucumbers.
Cover with 1 cup pickling salt and water. Shake each day for 4 days.
Drain and rinse 3 times (do not remove cucumbers from jar).
Mix 2 tablespoons alum with enough water to cover cucumbers.
Let stand 24 hours.
Shake every hour or two.
Rinse 3 times and cover with pure vinegar.
Let stand 10 days.
Drain vinegar off.
Discard vinegar.
Add 2 tablespoons pickling spice (put spice in a bag) and 3 cups sugar.
Shake to mix.
Next 3 days, add 1 cup sugar and shake.
Leave in gallon jar or put into smaller jars.