Grandma Lara's Pickles

By MissiAnn

Crunchy sweet pickles done the old fashioned way. Makes 6 qts.

Ingredients

• Day 1:
• Bring 1 gallon water plus 1 cup pickling salt to a boil. Pour over Sliced cucumbers in a 3 gallon crock with a lid. Leave 3 days on your counter.
• Day 4:
• Bring 1 gallon water plus 3 tsp pondered alum to a boil. Pour water over cucumbers. Weight cucumbers down and cover for 24 hours.
• Day 5:
• Drain and rinse cucumbers. Mix 10 cups vinegar and 6 cups of sugar and a bag of pickling spices.bring to boil and pour over cucumbers. Weight cucumbers down and cover for 48 hours.
• Day 7:
• Carefully pour off liquid into kettle. Add 2 cups sugar. Bring to a boil and pour over cucumbers. Weight and cover for 48 hours.
• Day 9:
• Repeat day 7.
• Day 11:
• Seal in jars at this point or keep in crock.

Preparation

Step 1

You can add green food color to your pickles. Fo spices you can use store bought pickling spice or make yor own with combination of turmeric,whole allspice, mustard seed,celery seed, cinnamon, juniper berries. I find a good quality purchased spice is more consistent in quality.