14 DAY SWEET PICKLES

14 DAY SWEET PICKLES

4 pounds 2 inch pickling cucumbers

1 cup pickling salt

2 quarts boiling water

5 cups distilled white vinegar

3 cups granulated sugar

1 1/2 tsp celery seed

4 2-inch cinnamon sticks

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

Wash cucumbes cut in half length-wise. Dissolve salt in boiling water, pour over cucumbers in large crock or non metalic container. Weight cucumbers down with plate to keep cukes down, place a large jar filled with water on plate to keep cucumbers under brine or use boiled clean rock.  let stand in cool place ( 68-72 degrees F) for seven days.. removing scum as it forms on top. Eighth drain: pour 2 quarts of boiling water over cucumbers. Tenth day drain, pour 2 quarts boiling water over cucumbers… Eleventh day, drain. Combine vinegar , 3 cups sugar celery seed and cinnomon sticks. Heat to boiling and  pour over cukes. For the next 2 days drain retaining liquid.

Reheat this liquid adding 1/2 cup  sugar each morning; Pour over cucumbers.

On the last day, drain retaining liquid. Pack pickles in clean, hot jars. Discard cinnamon sticks: add remaining 1/2 cup sugar to liquid, heat liquid to boiling. Continue simmering will filling jars within 1/2 inch of top making sure vinegar solution covers pickles. Cap each jar at once. Process 5 minutes in boiling water. makes 5 pints