18 Day Pickles

6 ingredients
16 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 c. salt
  • 1 gal. sliced cucumbers (cover in water)
  • 2 Tbsp. alum
  • 9 c. sugar
  • water
  • vinegar

Directions

  1. 1
    Add salt to cucumbers. Let stand 4 days.
  2. 2
    Wash pickles 3 times.
  3. 3
    Add
  4. 4
    alum
  5. 5
    and
  6. 6
    fill
  7. 7
    with water.
  8. 8
    Let stand 1 day. Rinse well.
  9. 9
    Pour
  10. 10
    vinegar
  11. 11
    over pickles.
  12. 12
    Let stand 10 days. Drain vinegar and rinse. Add 3 cups sugar.
  13. 13
    Repeat last step for
  14. 14
    3 days.
  15. 15
    (Total
  16. 16
    9 cups sugar.) Store in gallon jug. No seal necessary.

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