SWEET CHUNK PICKLES

Ingredients:

• Cucumbers
• Salt water (strong enough to float an egg)
• Vinegar
• Water
• Alum
• Sugar
• Pickling spices, celery seed, stick cinnamon

Instructions:

1. Soak whole cucumbers in strong salt water for 3 days, then in clear water for another 3 days.
2. Cut cucumbers into chunks and boil them in a mixture of half water and half vinegar, adding a piece of alum. Let stand in this solution for 1 day, then drain.
3. Prepare syrup with sugar, vinegar, and spices placed in a spice bag.
4. Boil syrup and pour over the drained cucumber chunks. Let stand for 1 day.
5. For the next 2 days, pour off the syrup, reheat it, and pour it back over the pickles.
6. On the 10th day, boil the syrup one last time and pour it over the pickles packed in jars, then seal.