Nine-Day Pickles
The Tinfully Family
nine days
Ingredients
- 7 pounds cucumbers, 2 to 3 inches long
- 1 pint salt
- 1 gallon water
- 2 cups vinegar
- water, to cover
- green grape leaves
- 1 teaspoon alum, slightly rounding
- 3 pints vinegar
- 3 pounds sugar
- 1 ounce whole allspice
Method
- Place cucumbers in a stone jar with brine made of one pint salt and one gallon water.
- Let stand four days.
- Pour off brine and cover with fresh cold water, let stand three days.
- Wash and split each cucumber, put in kettle with two cups vinegar and enough water to cover, add a few green grape leaves and a slightly rounding teaspoon of alum.
- Simmer two hours on back of stove.
- Put cucumbers back in jar.
- Heat three pints vinegar, three pounds sugar, and one ounce of whole allspice, and pour this over cucumbers.
- Let stand overnight.
- Next morning pour off and heat boiling hot, and pour back over pickles.
- Heat again next morning, and pour over pickles placed in jars, and seal.
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