Sweet Pickles

7 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 16 lb. cucumbers
  • 10 lb. sugar
  • 2 c. salt
  • 1 gal. water
  • 1 box pickling spice in cloth
  • 6 oz. powdered alum
  • 2 cauliflowers

Directions

  1. 1
    Mix salt and water.
  2. 2
    Soak whole cucumbers in brine water for 14 days.
  3. 3
    Wash, slice and soak overnight in alum water.
  4. 4
    Rinse and soak overnight in vinegar.
  5. 5
    Pour off vinegar.
  6. 6
    Add sugar and spice in cloth to cucumbers and let stand.
  7. 7
    The sugar will make plenty of syrup to cover the pickles.
  8. 8
    The pickles are never heated and sealing is not necessary.
  9. 9
    Will be ready in 2 to 3 weeks.
  10. 10
    If you want to add cauliflower, break in small pieces and put in brine water with cucumbers.

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