Two Week Sweet Pickles
- Ready In:
- 339hrs
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
8 quarts
ingredients
- 75 cucumbers
- 1 gallon water
- 1 pint salt
- 1 tablespoon alum, powdered
- 1 gallon water, boiling
- 1 gallon water
- 6 cups sugar
- 3 pints vinegar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon allspice, whole
- 1⁄2 teaspoon clove, whole
- 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 tablespoons celery seeds
- 3 cups sugar
directions
- Take 75 medium sized cukes to a gallon of water.
- Add 1 pint salt (kosher).
- Let stand 1 week. (make sure all cukes are submerged or they will spoil; put plate and weight on).
- Take out and take 1 tablespoon powdered alum to 1 gallon of boiling water.
- Let stand 24 hours.
- Pour off and put on 1 gallon clean boiling water.
- Let stand 24 hours.
- Take out and split and put in 6 cups sugar, 3 pints vinegar, and whole allspice, cinnamon bark, and celery seed, or cinnamon, mustard, allspice and cloves.
- Pour this on boiling hot; let stand 24 hours.
- Pour this solution off pickles and boil three mornings straight, adding 1 cup sugar each morning (add to pickles).
- Boil 3 mornings straight without sugar.
- Pack in jars the last morning, pour boiling syrup over and seal.
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