Candied Cucumbers

6 ingredients
8 steps

Ingredients

  • 16 lb. cucumbers
  • 2 c. sack salt to 1 gal. water
  • 1/2 box alum
  • 1 gal. apple cider vinegar
  • 10 lb. sugar
  • pickling spice to taste

Directions

  1. 1
    Soak whole cucumbers in salt water for 14 days.
  2. 2
    Remove from salt water; slice and soak overnight in 1/2 box alum water. Remove from alum water.
  3. 3
    Rinse and soak in 1 gallon apple cider vinegar for 6 hours.
  4. 4
    Remove from vinegar.
  5. 5
    Pour vinegar out.
  6. 6
    Put pickles and sugar in layers with spice.
  7. 7
    Use 10 pounds sugar.
  8. 8
    Let stand in stone or glass jar for several days before using. Pickles do not have to be sealed.

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