Icicle Pickles

5 ingredients
6 steps

Ingredients

  • 7 lb. big yellow cucumbers (looks like ready to throw away)
  • 1 box powdered alum
  • 1 qt. lime
  • 3 lb. pickling salt
  • 1/2 box pickling spice (tie up in a cloth)

Directions

  1. 1
    Take seeds out of peeled cucumbers and cut in strips.
  2. 2
    This will make a dishpan full.
  3. 3
    Fill dishpan of pickle strips full of water (cold).
  4. 4
    Add lime and let set in lime water for 12 to 17 hours.
  5. 5
    Stir occasionally, being careful not to break pickles. Keep covered tightly.
  6. 6
    Pour lime water off and wash pickles. Handle carefully.

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