Sweet Pickle Sticks (and Slices)

This is the recipe I used for making the sweet pickles posted July 12th.

Use fresh, firm medium cucumbers. Wash and cut them into sticks (or slices). Pour boiling water over them and let stand 4 to 5 hours. Then drain and pack solidly into clean hot jars. Make a solution of:

3 3/4 c. vinegar
3 c. sugar
3 tbsp. salt
4 1/2 tsp. celery seed
4 1/2 tsp. tumeric
3/4 tsp. mustard seed

Boil the solution for 5 minutes. Pour boiling hot over the cucumbers in jars. Put on lids and rings. Process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes. Solution fills 6 pint jars. NOTE: If a sweeter pickle is desired double measurement of sugar.