Candied Cucumbers
Ingredients
- 16 lb cucumbers
- 2 c sack salt to 1 gal water
- 12 box alum
- 1 gal apple cider vinegar
- 10 lb sugar
- pickling spice to taste
Directions
- Soak whole cucumbers in salt water for 14 days
- Remove from salt water slice and soak overnight in 12 box alum water Remove from alum water
- Rinse and soak in 1 gallon apple cider vinegar for 6 hours
- Remove from vinegar
- Pour vinegar out
- Put pickles and sugar in layers with spice
- Use 10 pounds sugar
- Let stand in stone or glass jar for several days before using Pickles do not have to be sealed