Boil this, and pour it scalding hot over the pickle, cucumbers, green tomatoes, &c.

Cucumbers may lie in this a week, or a month even, but must be soaked in cold water two days before using them.

Other pickles lie only a month.
Sweet pickles are made from any fruit used in preserving, allowing three, or sometimes four, pounds of sugar to a quart of best cider vinegar, and boiling both together.
CUCUMBER PICKLES.
Half a bushel of cucumbers, small, and as nearly as possible the same size.

Make a brine as directed, and pour over them.

Next morning prepare a pickle as follows: Two gallons of cider vinegar; one quart of brown sugar.
Boil, and skim carefully, and add to it half a pint of white mustard seed; one ounce of stick-cinnamon broken fine; one ounce of alum; half an ounce each of whole cloves and black pepper-corns.