7 pounds cucumbers

2 cups slaked lime (pickling lime)

1 cup salt

½ cup powdered alum

½ box mixed pickling spices

2 quarts vinegar

6 pounds sugar

1. Cut cucumbers into thin slices.  Wash and soak in lime water 14 hours or overnight.
2. Wash well and soak in salt water 4 hours. 
3. Drain and soak in cold water 2 hours.
4. Drain again and bring to a full rolling boil in alum water.  Drain and rinse.  Cook 30 minutes in vinegar, spices, and sugar (Mrs. Murphy and family tie spices in a piece of thin material like cheesecloth and drop in pot of pickles).
5. Pack either hot or cold.

If using 21 pounds of cucumbers the yield 17 ½ quarts