Recipe#3342

Title: 14 Day Pickles

From: "Snigdibbly" willene@tcac.com 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.preserving 
 Subject: Re: REQ: 14-Day Sweet Pickles 
 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:05:55 -0500 
 Message-ID: <6n5im0$h0$1@news2.myriad.net> 

75 Cucumbers or 2 gallons of the small ones
 Clean the cukes and place in a crock.  Make a brine of 2 C salt to
 1 gallon water.  Boil the brine and pour it over the cukes while
 boiling hot.  Let stand for 7days.  In hot weather, skim daily.
 Drain and cut into chunks.
 For the next 3 mornings make a boiling hot solution of 1 gallon
 water and 1 T powdered Alum.  Pour over cukes.  Make this fresh
 hot bath for 3 mornings.
 On the 4th morning, drain and discard alum water.  Heat 6 C vinegar,
 5 C sugar, 1/2 C pickling spice and to boiling point and pour over
 pickles.
 On the 5th morning drain this liquid off.  Save the liquid and add
 2 C sugar to it.  Heat it to the boiling point and pour over pickles.
 On the 6th morning drain this liquid and add 1 C sugar, heat to
 boiling.  Pack the pickle chunks in sterilized jars and pour boiling
 liquid over them to within a 1/2 to 1 inch of the top and seal with
 the lids.
 If my counting is right, that makes 13 days, not 14 but hope this
 will help.