Mary Ann's Sweet Pickles

Total Time: 312 hrs Preparation Time: 240 hrs Cook Time: 72 hrs

Ingredients

• 75 small cucumbers
• 1 cup canning salt
• 5 cups sugar
• 5 cups vinegar (5% brown)
• 1 ounce pickling spices
• 1 ounce celery seed
• 1 tablespoon alum
• cheese cloth
• 1 large stone jar

Recipe

• 1 put cucumbers in a stone jar ( or very large tupperware) with cold water with 1 cup canning salt. let sit covered for one week. be sure cucumbers are submerged by placing a plate or something on them and then something heavy on top like a mason jar filled with water.
• 2 drain.
• 3 cover for one day with fresh boiling hot water. (day 8).
• 4 on 9th day cut/ split the cucumbers. cover for second day with alum and fresh boiling water.
• 5 on 10th day make your syrup.
• 6 combine pickling spice and celery seed in cheese cloth, bring to boil with sugar and vinegar.
• 7 cover cucumbers with the syrup. if this amount does not cover make additional syrup by just adding 1 cup sugar to 1 cup vinegar until cucumbers are covered. again be sure all pickles are submerged in syrup.
• 8 for a total of three days cover each morning with boiling hot syrup.
• 9 (10th day cover with boiling hot syrup).
• 10 (11th day drain syrup back into pot and bring to boil and cover again with same syrup boiling hot).
• 11 12th day (repeat day 11) transfer to jars and put in the refrigerator or can in jars.