Grams' Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

• * 1 whole chicken (~3.5 lbs) or 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• * Duke's Mayonnaise
• * 4 eggs
• * 3 stalks of celery
• * 1 cup Grams' sweet pickles

Directions:

Cook chicken in large pot with water until done (~45 minutes, test with fork). Wait for chicken to cool, remove meat from bone, and cut up with kitchen scissors.

Meanwhile, hard boil 4 eggs (as soon as water boils, put lid on pot, and let sit on OFF burner for 15-20 minutes). When they're done cooking, chop eggs into small pieces.

Clean and chop celery into small pieces.

Cut up Grams' sweet pickles into small pieces.

Mix ingredients together and add mayonnaise until desired consistency is achieved.

If you want a more moist chicken salad, add 1/3 cup pickle juice or cooled chicken broth.

Chill in fridge.

Grams' Sweet Pickles

Ingredients:

• *4 Gals Sliced Cucumbers (~25 lbs or 1 bushel)
• * 2 Gals Water
• * 1 Gal White Vinegar
• * 4 cups Kosher salt
• * 2 ozs Alum
• * 10 lbs sugar
• * Small box Pickle Spice

Directions:

Wash and slice cucumbers.

Soak cucumbers for 7 days in Kosher Salt and water.

On the 7th day, drain cucumbers and rinse. Pour into Alum water and soak for 24 hours.

Drain cucumbers and rinse. Pour into vinegar and soak for 24 hours.

Pour into sink, drain vinegar, DO NOT WASH CUCUMBERS.

Tie small bag of spice in cheese cloth and drop near bottom of bin.

Layer pickles and sugar in bin until 10 lbs of sugar has been dissolved.

Let set until sugar dissolves - can chill some in refrigerator or eat out of jar.