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Two Week Sweet Pickles

Here's how you make Two Week Sweet Pickles
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  • Servings: 8
  • Prep: 14d
  • Cook: 3h
    • The following recipe serves 8 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 75 small pickling cucumbers
  • 1 gallon water
  • 1 pint salt
  • 1 tablespoon alum, powdered
  • 1 gallon water, boiling
  • 1 gallon water
  • 6 cups granulated sugar
  • 3 pints vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon allspice, whole
  • 1/2 teaspoon cloves, whole
  • 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 2 tablespoons celery seeds
  • 3 cups sugar
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Take 75 medium sized cukes to a gallon of water.

  • Step 2: Add 1 pint salt (kosher).

  • Step 3: Let stand 1 week. (make sure all cukes are submerged or they will spoil; put plate and weight on).

  • Step 4: Take out and take 1 tablespoon powdered alum to 1 gallon of boiling water.

  • Step 5: Let stand 24 hours.

  • Step 6: Pour off and put on 1 gallon clean boiling water.

  • Step 7: Let stand 24 hours.

  • Step 8: Take out and split and put in 6 cups sugar, 3 pints vinegar, and whole allspice, cinnamon bark, and celery seed, or cinnamon, mustard, allspice and cloves.

  • Step 9: Pour this on boiling hot; let stand 24 hours.

  • Step 10: Pour this solution off pickles and boil three mornings straight, adding 1 cup sugar each morning (add to pickles).

  • Step 11: Boil 3 mornings straight without sugar.

  • Step 12: Pack in jars the last morning, pour boiling syrup over and seal.

Tips & Variations

Don't forget the following tips and variations.
  • A big crock ,plate ,weight

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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