Our Family Food Favorites: Zucchini Lime Pickles

Mar 7, 2015

Zucchini Lime Pickles

Recipes from Elna Creek and Elodie Caldwell

Zucchini Lime Pickles

7 lbs zucchini diced

2 c pickling lime

1 T salt

4 lbs sugar (8 cups)

1 ½ quarts of vinegar

1 small box pickling spice

Soak zucchini overnight in 2 gallons of water and 2 cups of lime. Wash and cover with water. Let soak in green food coloring, ½ tsp, change the water every 45 minutes for 3 times. Mix ingredients and pour over pickles. Let stand overnight. Cook for 25 minutes. Next morning pack and process 5 minutes in boiling water bath.

Recipe shared by Karen.

"Saying Grace" by Norman Rockwell

This painting was created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post’s 1951 Thanksgiving issue. It portrays a woman and a young boy saying grace in a crowded restaurant while the people around them glance in their direction. Rockwell was inspired to create this artwork by a reader of the magazine who saw a Mennonite family praying in a restaurant.

In 1955, the readers of The Saturday Evening Post voted Saying Grace as their favorite ever cover. The painting was sold for $46 million in an auction at Sotheby’s in December 2013. At that time, it set the record for the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction. The $46 million paid for Saying Grace remains the highest known price paid for a Norman Rockwell artwork.