18 Day Pickles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. salt
1 gal. sliced cucumbers (cover in water)
2 Tbsp. alum
9 c. sugar
water
vinegar

Preparation

Add salt to cucumbers.\tLet stand 4 days.
Wash pickles 3 times.
Add
alum
and
fill
with water.
Let stand 1 day. Rinse well.
Pour
vinegar
over pickles.
Let stand 10 days. Drain vinegar and rinse.\tAdd 3 cups sugar.
Repeat last step for
3 days.
(Total
9 cups sugar.) Store in gallon jug.\tNo seal necessary.