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Pickles

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Ingredients

  • 2 gallons cucumbers cut-up
  • 2 gallons water
  • 2 pints salt
  • Alum
  • vinegar
  • 1 box pickeling spices

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Preparation

Step 1

Mix water and salt, heat to boiling and pour over cucumbers. Let set 1 week stirring every day.

Drain water from cucumbers, rinse, pour clear water (boiling) over cucumbers and let stand over night.

Drain water off mix 2 gals water with 4 tablespoons Alum. Heat until boiling, pour over cucumbers. let stand 24 hours.

Drain off Alum water. Heat 15 lbs sugar, 1 gal vinegar, 1 box pickling spices, put spices in clean white cloth and put in bottum of crock. Add cucumbers on top, boil sugar and vinegar, pour over pickles.

Drain vinegar mixture 4 days in a row, heating to boiling each time. Place bag in bottom each time. Add 1 cup sugar each time you heat pickles.

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