Sweet Dill Pickles

35 to 40 four or five inch cucumbers
3 tablespoons mixed pickling spices (you may prefer mustard seed)
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup pickling salt
4 cups vinegar
4 cups water

Put two sprigs of dill in each jar. Add clove of garlic or a little onion in each jar if you wish. Put spice in a cloth bag and simmer with sugar, salt, vinegar and water for fifteen minutes. Wash and wipe each cucumber and pack in jars. Heat the brine to boiling and pour over pickles in jar. Leave � inch head space in each jar. Seal. Process quarts ten minutes in boiling water. Should be ready in about four weeks.