Sweet Cucumber Pickles

• 16 lb. cucumbers
• 10 lb. sugar
• 1/2 box alum (1 1/2 oz.)
• 1 gal. vinegar (red or white)
• 7 boxes pickling spices
• salt water to float an egg

1. Soak
2. cucumbers in salt water 14 days.temove slime on top every
3. couple
4. of
5. days.
6. Weight
7. down
8. sotucumbers are covered. Remove,
9. rinse
10. and
11. slice
12. thintnd
13. round.
14. Soak overnight intlum water.
15. Rinse and cover with vinegar for 6 hours.throw away
16. vinegar.
17. Place
18. a
19. layer of cucumbers, a layer
20. of sugar and a layer of pickling spices until container is
21. 3/4
22. full. Cover.
23. Int few days the sugar will melt and make
24. syrupto cover
25. pickles.
26. Leave in container or put in jarstnd cover top. Do not process.
27. Keeps indefinitely.
28. No need to refrigerate.

cucumbers, sugar, alum, vinegar, pickling spices, salt water

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=619376 (may not work)