Old Fashion Sweet Pickles

7 lbs. Cucumbers
Soak in 3 cups pickling Lime and
2 gals. of water for 24 hrs.
Rinse off lime water. Place pickles in ice water. Change water every hour 4 hrs (ice cold water), for 12 hours or 3 additional changes. Prepare brine.

Brine:
5 pts vinegar (apple cider)
5 lbs sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon celery seeds

Bring brine to a boil, pour over drained cucumbers. Let set overnight. Boil cucumbers and brine for 1 hour. Put in jars HOT and let jars seal. If any jars DO NOT SEAL, place in cold bath canner and process for 15 mins, , based on elevation being 1000 feet or less. Add 5 minutes if over 1000 feet and if over 3000 add 10 minutes, add 15 minutes over 6000 feet altitude.

Yield – 12 pints

NOTE: I started making these pickles in 1964. My sister-in-law Leona Morris taught me how. They are Red’s favorite sweet pickles. We spend each summer making these, and it turned out to be more like playing than working with us. We did not have a weight scale so we put a bowl on bathroom scales and almost have to stand on out heads to be able to see the amount! NOW picture that!!

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