Description
This is not my recipe. Found it on key gourmet by softkey.
Ingredients
- Cucumbers
- Canning Salt
- Vinegar
- Alum
- Pickling Spices
- Sugar
Instructions
- 1st day: dissolve salt in 1 gallon boiling water
- Pour over cucumbers and let stand overnight
- 2nd day: pour off salt water
- Add 1 gallon boiling water mixed with alum
- Let stand overnight
- 3rd day: pour off alum water
- Add 1 gallon clear boiling water
- Let stand 24 hours
- 4th day: boil 1 gallon vinegar and spices wrapped in cloth bag
- Boil 15 minutes and pour over drained cucumbers
- Let stand 9 days moving spice bag around each day
- 13th day: slice or cut pickles and layer alternately with sugar until all sugar is used
- Let stand overnight
- 14th day: can
- Recipe calls for unsealed pickles
- However, i heat the syrup and pickle slices and pack them in hot jars
- I store these in refrigerator