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12 - Day Pickles Recipe

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This recipe for 12 - Day Pickles, by , is from Henderson Plant Cookbook - Kennametal, Inc., one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We help families or individuals create heirloom cookbook treasures.
Contributor:  
Contributor:  
Ida Hilliard (Lawrence's mother)
Category:
Category:
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 gallons of cucumbers
1 oz. alum
salt water
8 c. sugar
2 1/2 pints vinegar
4 sticks cinnamon
2 tsp. celery seed
Directions:
Directions:
DAYS 1-7:
Split 2 gallons of cucumbers. Soak 7 days in salt water (1 pint salt to 1 gallon water).
DAY 8:
Pour off salt water and cover with boiling water.
DAY 9:
Pour off water and cover with fresh boiling water containing 1 oz. Alum.
DAY 10:
Pour off this water and rinse pickles. Mix sugar, vinegar, cinnamon sticks and celery seed. Bring mixture to a boil and pour over cucumbers.
DAY 11:
Drain mixture off of cucumbers and reheat. Pour back on cucumbers.
DAY 12:
Pack cucumbers in jar and reheat mixture to boiling and pour into jars over cucumbers and seal.

 

 

 

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