EIGHT-DAY BREAD & BUTTER PICKLES

      Title: EIGHT-DAY BREAD & BUTTER PICKLES
  Categories: Pickles
       Yield: 1 Batch
  
       8 qt Cucumbers
       4 c  Vinegar
       2 ts Pickling spice
       8 c  Sugar
       5 ts Salt
  
   Place cucumbers in a crock; pour boiling water over to cover each day
   for four days.  Use fresh water each day. Keep crock covered and
   cool. On the fifth day, cut cucumbers into 1/2" to 3/4" pieces. Mix
   other ingredients and bring to a boil.  Pour over cut-up cucumbers in
   crock. Reheat this syrup each day for four days and pour over
   cucumbers. Keep covered and cool at all other times.
   
   Pack cucumbers in jars and fill with heated syrup, leaving 1/2"
   headspace, then seal.
   
                                      -- Mary B. Harry
                                         Baltimore, MD

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