Pickles - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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16 lb. whole cucumbers
salt
alum
1 gal. vinegar
10 lb. sugar
1/2 box spice
Preparation
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Put cucumbers in churn with about 2 cups salt to 1 gallon water until egg floats.
Let set 7 days.
Take out of churn and wash well.
Cut up.
Put 4 tablespoons alum to 1 gallon water and pour over cut up cucumbers.
Let set overnight and wash well.
Put back in churn.
Pour 1 gallon vinegar over them and let set 6 hours. Pour vinegar off and throw away.
Put sugar and spice in layers. Let set 2 days.
Do not seal.
When adding spice, put in a thin cloth.
Use 5% vinegar (Heinz).
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