Grandma's Spicy Sweet Pickles

Submitted by Donna M.

"Good old fashioned pickles from Grandma. This recipe is nearly 100 years old, passed from generation to generation. These are great pickles, and really very easy."

 

• Ready In: 168hrs 15mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 1 batch

ingredients

• 4 lbs cucumbers, after slicing
• 1⁄3 cup salt
• 1 quart white vinegar
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon celery seed
• 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
• 2 tablespoons whole mixed pickling spices
• 1 tablespoon alum
• 5 cups sugar

directions

1. Slice cucumbers about 1/8 inch thick.
2. Pour salt over cucumbers.
3. Pour enough boiling water over all to cover.
4. Stir and let stand 8 hours or overnight.
5. Drain and discard brine.
6. In a saucepan, combine vinegar, 1 cup sugar, spices and alum.
7. Bring to a boil.
8. Put cucumbers in a large glass jar or plastic bucket with lid or a stoneware crock.
9. Pour boiling vinegar mixture over cucumbers.
10. Cover and let stand.
11. Next day, and each consecutive day for 5 days total, stir in one additional cup of sugar.
12. Do not reheat when sugar is added.
13. At the end of the 5th day, pickles are done and may be stored in covered jar.
14. Do not seal jars.
15. Pickles will keep indefinitely and get better with age.

Reviews

[pat bowman]

hi donna. my name is pat and i want to thank you for the wonderful pickle recipe. it wasent only very,very tasty but it was easy too. rite up my ally. what i would like to know though is can i put them in a jar with a lid and put them in the fridg. to keep. i dont want to processes them just cover them so they stay fresh till thanksgiving. your friend for ever lal pat

 

[james_susan94]

I discovered this recipe several years ago and have used every summer. . I have even been known to take my jar full of pickles camping just so that I could add the sugar each day. The pickles are absolutely delicious and crisp. I get raves everywhere I take them. I have kept them more than two years and they still taste as good as the day that I pickled them. Thanks Donna for this recipe I love it! If you have any other recipes from your grandmother, I would love for you to share them.