26
Nov
Dora’s Bread & Butter Sweet Pickles
Ingredients:
9 lbs cucumbers, Cross cut thin
1 pt. salt to 1 gallon of water
alum, size of walnut
1 cup vinegar
Syrup:
3 pts. vinegar
5 lbs sugar
1 pkg. cinnamon
1/2 pkg. allspice
1 tbsp. Dill seed
Instruction:
***Soak cucumbers in 1 gallon of water with one pint salt for 3 days. On 4th day wash them. Add 1 cup of vinegar and alum, bring to boil & cover with water. Boil one hour, then drain. Make syrup and pour over pickles, next three mornings pour off syrup, bring to a boil and pour back on pickles. Last morning put in jars and seal.
Notes: ***This is not clear to me……hope someone that cans can decipher this.
Dora Meyer Recipe Collection by Mom Carver