SWEET PICKLES

      Title: SWEET PICKLES
  Categories: Pickles
       Yield: 20 Servings
  
       3 lb Pickling Cucumbers
 
 MMMMM-------------------------COLD BRINE------------------------------
       4 c  Water
     1/2 c  Salt
     1/2 c  Vinegar
 
 MMMMM-------------------------HOT SYRUP------------------------------
       2 c  Sugar
       2 c  Vinegar
       1 c  Water
       8    All Spice Balls
       6    Cloves
       1    Stick Cinnamon
  
   Wash cucumbers and put in jars whole.  Cover with cold brine and store
   until ready to use.  When ready, drain pickles and cut into pieces.
   Cover with boiling water and 1/4 t alum, let stand until cool. Drain.
   Put pickle spices in a cloth bag and boil in syrup mixture. Pour hot
   syrup on pickles and let stand in open jars for 2 days. Drain syrup
   into a pan and heat with spices and add 2 more cups sugar.  Bring to
   a boil. Put pickles into clean jars, pour syrup over and seal.
   Pickles are ready to eat when cool.
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