Kitchen Floor Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

cucumbers
2 Tbsp. alum
2 Tbsp. plain salt
1/4 c. whole pickling spices
4 c. vinegar

Preparation

Use small to medium-size cucumbers. Chunk up cucumbers and pack tightly in a gallon jar (glass or plastic). Add remaining ingredients. Fill the rest of the way with water. Cap and let set for 1 month. Remove from jar and wash cucumbers and jar. Put back in jar. Add 5 cups sugar. Cap and shake jar until cucumbers are covered with juice. Pickles are ready to eat. They do not have to be refrigerated.