The Best Pickle You Ever Ate

6 ingredients
7 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 gal. 1 to 1 1/2-inch cucumber slices (about 15 or 20 cucumbers)
  • 2 Tbsp. pickling or iodine-free table salt
  • 2 Tbsp. alum
  • 2 Tbsp. pickling spices, tied loosely in a piece of cheesecloth
  • about 1/2 gal. 5% cider vinegar, or enough to cover
  • 8 c. sugar

Directions

  1. 1
    Wash cucumbers and remove ends.
  2. 2
    Slice each about 1/8-inch thick.
  3. 3
    Fill wide-mouth gallon jar with cucumber slices to within 3 inches of top.
  4. 4
    Place spices in center and sprinkle salt and alum evenly over slices.
  5. 5
    Continue to fill jar to within 1 inch of top with cucumber slices.
  6. 6
    Pack firmly into container.
  7. 7
    Cover cucumbers with vinegar and let stand for 6 weeks.

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