Candied Cucumbers

5 ingredients
9 steps

Ingredients

  • 16 lb. cucumbers (medium size)
  • 2 c. ice cream salt (enough to float an egg)
  • 1/2 box alum
  • apple cider vinegar
  • 10 lb. sugar

Directions

  1. 1
    Soak cucumbers in salt water for 7 to 8 days.
  2. 2
    Take out and rinse good.
  3. 3
    Cut cucumbers in slices and soak in alum and water to cover for 1 day.
  4. 4
    Take out and rinse good.
  5. 5
    Soak in apple cider vinegar for 1 day.
  6. 6
    Take cucumbers out and pour vinegar down drain.
  7. 7
    Use stone or glass jar and layer cucumbers with sugar. Stir once in awhile.
  8. 8
    Do not seal during soaking.
  9. 9
    You may leave cucumbers and syrup in the stone or glass jar or store in smaller jars.

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