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.