Description
Good old fashioned pickles from grandma. This recipe is nearly 100 years old, passed from generation to generation. These are great pickles, and really very easy.
Ingredients
- Cucumbers
- Salt
- White Vinegar
- Sugar
- Celery Seed
- Mustard Seeds
- Whole Mixed Pickling Spices
- Alum
Instructions
- Slice cucumbers about 1 / 8 inch thick
- Pour salt over cucumbers
- Pour enough boiling water over all to cover
- Stir and let stand 8 hours or overnight
- Drain and discard brine
- In a saucepan, combine vinegar, 1 cup sugar, spices and alum
- Bring to a boil
- Put cucumbers in a large glass jar or plastic bucket with lid or a stoneware crock
- Pour boiling vinegar mixture over cucumbers
- Cover and let stand
- Next day, and each consecutive day for 5 days total, stir in one additional cup of sugar
- Do not reheat when sugar is added
- At the end of the 5th day, pickles are done and may be stored in covered jar
- Do not seal jars
- Pickles will keep indefinitely and get better with age