Categories: Pickles 
      Yield: 1 batch 
  
      8 qt Cucumbers 
      4 c  Vinegar 
      2 ts Pickling spice 
      8 c  Sugar 
      5 ts Salt 
  
  Place cucumbers in a crock; pour boiling water over to cover each day for 
  four days.  Use fresh water each day.  Keep crock covered and cool. On the 
  fifth day, cut cucumbers into 1/2" to 3/4" pieces.  Mix other ingredients 
  and bring to a boil.  Pour over cut-up cucumbers in crock. Reheat this 
  syrup each day for four days and pour over cucumbers. Keep covered and cool 
  at all other times. 
   
  Pack cucumbers in jars and fill with heated syrup, leaving 1/2" headspace, 
  then seal. 
   
                                     -- Mary B. Harry 
                                        Baltimore, MD