Lime Pickles

Recipes Ingredients:

7 lb Pickling cucumbers *
L tsp. celery seed
Vinegar mixture 1
ts Cloves
2 qt Of vinegar
1 ts Mixed spices
3 ts Salt
2 c Of lime
4-1/2 lb Of sugar

Recipe Instructions:

Soak for 24 hours in the 2 cups of lime and 2 gallons of water. Rinse well in ice water several times. Cover with cold (ice) water and soak for 3 hours. Drain and cover with vinegar mixture (vinegar, salt, sugar, celery seed, clives and mixed spices). Let stand overnight in this mixture, then boil mixture and pickles for 35 minutes. Seal in sterlized jars.