Sweet Ginger Pickles

7 ingredients
3 steps

Ingredients

  • 10 lb. cucumbers
  • alum
  • 2 heaping Tbsp. ginger
  • 5 1/2 lb. sugar
  • 1/2 gal. vinegar
  • 1 Tbsp. spices
  • pickling salt

Directions

  1. 1
    Soak the cucumbers in brine for 10 days. Take out and cut in 1/4-inch slices.
  2. 2
    Soak in alum water 24 hours (2 tablespoons alum to 1 gallon water). Dry off on cloth, then boil in ginger tea (2 heaping tablespoonfuls ginger to 1 gallon water) 1 hour.
  3. 3
    Take out and boil in syrup (sugar, 1 teaspoon alum, vinegar and spices tied in thin cloth) for 3 to 5 minutes until clear.

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