Categories: pickles-relish

Ingredients

• 7lb. cucumbers (slice crosswise)
• 2 cups lime
• 2 gallons water
• 2 quarts vinegar
• 4 1/2 lb. sugar
• 1 Tbsp. salt
• 1 to 1/12 Tbsp. pickling spice

Directions

1. Mix lime and water together in a large pot or Dutch oven. Soak cucumber slices 24 hours in lime water, then rinse in 3 separate cool water baths. Soak 3 hours in ice and water. Then remove.
2. Make syrup. Combine vinegar, sugar and salt and stir until sugar dissolves. Pour over cucumbers. let set overnight. Add pickling spice to suite taste. Then boil mixture for 15 minutes and can.

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