Icicle Pickles

Ingredients

• 2 gal pickles
• 1 pt salt
• 1 gal cold water
• 4 Tbsp alum
• 2 qt vinegar
• 7 pt 5 lb sugar
• handful pickling spices

Directions

1. Make pickles
2. Cover with salt and cold water
3. Let set 2 days Pour off
4. Cover with boiling water
5. Let set 24 hours
6. Pour off Add alum and cover with boiling water
7. Let set 24 hours
8. Boil vinegar sugar and pickling spices
9. Put pickles in after draining well
10. Let set 24 hours
11. Can the next day hot pickles in hot jars or process 10 minutes