Crystal Pickles

Ingredients

• 25 Cukes
• 2 qts. Sugar
• 1 qt. Vinegar
• 1 Tbsp. Wh. Cloves
• 1 qt. salt to 4 qt. water
• 1 Tbsp. Alum

Directions

1. Wash cukes leave whole put in crock cover with 1 qt. salt to 4 qt. water leave set 2 weeks.
2. Take out & wash good - slice thin, replace in crock cover with cold water.
3. 1 Tbsp. Alum - stie up good & stand for 24hrs
4. drain + wash cukes make syrup (vine-sugar-cloves) and boil 5min.
5. Drain off syrup + reboil everyday for 5 days.
6. Then can while syrup is hot.
7. Take out + wash good; stand for 24 hrs; boil 5 min.

Timing

• leave set 2 weeks
• stand for 24 hrs; boil 5 min.
• reboil everyday for 5 days

Temperature

• cold water; boil; syrup is hot

Equipment

• crock

Transcription

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