Icicle Pickles

Ingredients

• 2 gal cucumbers cut in small pieces
• 1 gal boiling water
• 1 pt salt
• 1 gal boiling water
• 2 Tbsp alum
• 16 c sugar
• 8 c vinegar
• 1 box pickling spices tied in cloth

Directions

1. Pour 1 gallon boiling water over the cucumbers
2. Add the salt Let stand for 1 week stirring each day
3. Drain water off
4. Add 1 gallon boiling water and the alum
5. Let stand 24 hours
6. Drain Make a syrup of the sugar vinegar and pickling spices
7. Bring to boil pour over pickles
8. Drain and heat syrup for 3 mornings Next morning
9. Heat syrup and can or keep in a refrigerator in jar