Omg Delicious Cinnamon Pickled Cucumber Rings Cukes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 gallons cucumbers, sliced (best to use overripe cucumbers that have gotten large and yellowed at the end of the season...the la)
2 cups pickling lime (calcium hydroxide)
1 tablespoon alum
1 ounce red food coloring
3 cups apple cider vinegar
8 cinnamon sticks
14 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup red-hot candies

Preparation

Peel cucumbers and slice about 1/4\"-1/2\" thick.
Remove the seeds by cutting a circle out of the middle.
They will be donut shaped.
Soak in 8 1/2 quarts of water and 2 cups of pickling lime for 24 hours.
Wash and drain slices very well.
Cover with cold water and soak for 3 hours.
Place cukes, alum, food coloring, 1 cup vinegar, and enough water to cover the cukes in a large pot.
Simmer for 2 hours.
Drain and throw away solution.
Melt red hots in 2 cups water.
Mix red hot solution, 2 c vinegar 8 cinnamon sticks, and sugar and heat until hot; bring to a near boil.
Pour mixture over cucumbers.
Let sit until next day.
For 2 mornings, remove cucumbers and heat solution. DO NOT THROW AWAY SOLUTION.
Pour hot solution back over cucumbers.
Sit until next morning.
On third morning, heat solution with cucumbers included.
Do not boil!
Place cucumbers in jars while hot and seal!
Refrigerate after jars reach room temperature.
Serve cold.