14 DAY PICKLES

Fair warning!  These are incredible pickles and worth the effort it will take.  If you like sweet pickles or bread and butter pickles, these will taste like a little bit of heaven!

14 DAY PICKLES

Ingredients

2 gallons cleaned sliced cucumbers

2 cups salt

1 gallon boiling water

1 gallon boiling water

1 tablespoon alum

1 gallon cold water

Use a glass, ceramic or plastic container for this.

Day 1 - Place cucumbers in 2 gallon container.  Spread salt on top. Pour 1 gallon boiling water over the cucumbers and salt.

Day 2 - Let stand

Day 3 - Let stand

Day 4 - Let stand

Day 5 - Let stand

Day 6 - Let stand

Day 7 - Let stand

Day 8 - Let stand

Day 9 – Drain, pour 1 gallon boiling water over the cucumbers, let stand 24 hours

Day 10 - Drain water, mix together alum and 1 gallon cold water and pour over cucumbers and let stand 24 hours.

Ingredients-Syrup

6 cups sugar

5 cups apple cider vinegar

8 teaspoons mixed pickling spices in cheesecloth

Day 11 – Drain, mix syrup ingredients and boil, then pour over cucumbers

Day 12 – Drain and re-heat syrup and pour over pickles

Day 13 – Drain and re-heat syrup and pour over pickles

Day 14 – Drain syrup, add 1 cup sugar and re-heat syrup, removing the spices in cheesecloth.  Place pickles in canning jars and pour syrup over pickles.  Add some of the spices from the cheese cloth to each jar and seal.  

Jars should seal tightly as they cool.  If any jars don’t seal, place in hot water bath and then cool again.  Any pickles that don’t seal should be used as soon as possible.