14 Day Cucumber Pickles

7 ingredients
5 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 gal. cucumbers, sliced
  • 1 pt. salt
  • 1 piece blue stone (size of a pea)
  • 1 piece alum
  • 1 qt. vinegar
  • 5 c. sugar
  • 2 Tbsp. pickling spice

Directions

  1. 1
    Cover cucumbers and salt with water; let cucumbers sit in water for 9 days.
  2. 2
    Drain off water and then cover with boiling water with blue stone for 1 day.
  3. 3
    Drain off and cover with boiling water and alum for 1 day.
  4. 4
    Drain off and cover with vinegar, sugar and spice; heat to boiling.
  5. 5
    Cover for 3 days and put in jars and seal on third day.

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