Nine Day Pickle Recipe:

 Nine Day Pickle Recipe:

5 lbs. pickling cucumbers (washed & sliced into 1/2 - 1 inch pieces with blossom ends removed).

1 cups pickling salt (not iodized salt).

Boiling water to cover cucumbers.

Brine:

5 cups white vinegar

6 cups granulated sugar (divided).

1 tbsp's pickling spice.

DAY 1-3

~ Layer prepared cucumbers and pickling salt in a large , deep stone crock or a food grade plastic or stainless steel container. 

~ Cover with boiling water.

~ Let stand for 3 days.

DAY 4

~ Drain salt water brine.

~ Cover with boiling water.

~ Replace weight.

DAY 5

~ Repeat steps from DAY 4.

DAY 6

~ Drain and rinse cucumbers under cold water.

~ Make brine (combine vinegar, 3 cups of the sugar and pickling spice) and bring to a boil.

~ Pour over drained cucumbers and replace weight. Cover with cheesecloth.

DAY 7

~ Drain cucumbers, reserving brine in a saucepan. 

~ Add 1 1/2 cups sugar to the brine, bring to a boil.

~ Pour boiling brine over drained cucumbers.

~ Replace weight & cheesecloth.

DAY 8

~ Repeat steps from DAY 7

DAY 9

~ Drain cucumbers, reserving brine in a saucepan, bring to a boil.

~ Pack drained cucumbers into 5 pint jars up to an inch of top rim of the jar.

~ Add boiling brine to within a half inch of rim, remove air bubbles, re-adjust brine level if necessary.

~ Wipe rims with clean cloth, screw on lids finger tight.

~ Process in a hot water bath canner for 10 minutes (15 minutes for quarts).

Makes about 5 pints.

Pickles taste best when allowed to sit for 2-3 weeks.

adapted From 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRet19qVOMU