Sweet Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

7 lb. medium cucumbers
salt
lime
3 pt. vinegar
6 lb. sugar
4 tsp. cinnamon bark
6 tsp. celery salt

Preparation

Put cucumbers in salt and lime to carry an egg.
Let stand 5 days.
Drain and soak 2 days in clear water, then cut up in sticks.
Cover with boiling water.
Let stand until cool.
Drain. Boil the remaining ingredients a short time and pour over pickles. Do not heat pickles.
Re-boil this syrup for 3 mornings and pour back over the pickles.
At third heating, pack pickles in jars and pour over hot syrup.
Seal.
A crisp pickle.