Christmas red pickles

Christmas Red Pickles


Ingredients:
1 gal large to ex-large cucumbers

Preliminary Preparation ingredients:


1 oz. red food color
1/2 tsp. alum
1 C. vinegar
1 C. pickling lime


Syrup ingredients:


2 C. vinegar
2 C. water
7 C. (5lbs) sugar
1 C. red hot cinnamons candy
4 sticks cinnamon


Preparation: 

Peel, remove seeds  and slice large cucumbers. Cover with cold water
and add 1 C. lime.  Leave soak for 24 hours. Then drain and rinse.
Cover with clean cold water and let soak for 3 hours.  
Mix in 1 C. vinegar, alum, and food color to  pickles. 
Heat and simmer for 2 hours.
	While cucumbers simmer, make red hot syrup of the 
2 C. vinegar, 2 C. water, sugar, red hots, and stick cinnamon.  
Heat until red hots dissolve.  Drain pickles and cover with syrup. 
Let stand overnight.  The next morning, heat and pack in sterilized 
jars and seal.

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