Chunk Sweet Pickles

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Recipe byBonnieHightower

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Serving Size : -1 Preparation Time: 0:20
Categories : Pickles
These are made the old school way and they are well worth the effort. You will need 15 days to make these pickles. I won first place at the New Mexico State Fair with these pickles five years in a row. Very
sweet and crunchy!

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Ingredients:

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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75 small pickling cucumbers
2 cups pickling salt
6 cups vinegar
5 cups sugar
1/3 cup pickling spice
1 Tbl celery seed

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Make a brine of 2 cups salt to1 gallon water. Boil and pour over the
cucumbers in a crock. Weigh down with a plate to keep cucumbers submerged.
Let stand 1 week. In hot weather skim daily.
2. After 1 week, drain the cucumbers and cut into chunks. Put back into
crock. For the next 3 mornings make a boiling hot solution of 1 gallon
water and 1 TBL powdered alum and pour over the pickles.
3. Do this fresh for 3 mornings.
4. On the 4th morning drain from the alum water and then heat 6 cups
vinegar, 5 cups sugar, 1/3 cup pickling spice and 1 TBL celery seed to
boiling point and pour over the pckles.
5. On the 6th morning, drain liquid, add 1 cup sugar, heat and pack the
pickles into sterile jars. Pour this liquid over until the jars are filled.
Seal while hot.