Grandma Cleo's 11 Day Sweet Pickles
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These are Anna's favorite pickles. Both she and her mom also grind these up to make the family's homemade pickle relish, adding a stick of cinnamon to the jar with the relish.

1 cup salt
8 cups water
small to medium cucumbers
 1 1/2 tsp powdered alum
sugar
cidar vinegar, to cover
DAY 1 TO 7: Add the first three ingredients. Cover cucumbers with boiling salt brine and let stand 7 days. Drain.

DAY 8: Add the alum to boiling water to cover. Pour boiling alum water over cucumbers to cover. Allow to stand 24 hours and drain.

DAY 9: Split cucumbers lengthwise and cover with cidar vinegar. Drain off and measure. Add and equal amount of sugar. Bring to a boil. Pour over pickles and let stand 24 hours.

DAY 10: Add sugar. Drain off and to same syrup add same amount of sugar as previous day. Bring to boil. Pour over pickles and let stand 24 hours.

DAY 11: Drain syrup into cooking pan. Put pickles into canning jars. Heat syrup and add 2 tsp. Wholespice to quart and seal.