Easy and Delicious Fermented Sweet Pickle Recipe

This sweet pickle recipe was Alan's Mother's recipe. These are some of the best sweet pickles I have ever eaten! Sweet Pickle Superb 16 lbs. cucumbers 1 box pickling spices 1/2 box alum (2 1/4 oz. per box) 10 lb. sugar 1 cup salt to each half gallon of water - strong enough to float an egg. Soak whole cucumbers in salt water for seven days. Pour off water and soak in alum water over night. Pour off Alum water and rinse. Cover with vinegar. Let stand six hours. Throw away vinegar and put a layer of cucumbers and layer of sugar and spices (layer after layer). In a day or two syrup will rise. They will keep indefinitely without sealing.