Our Family Food Favorites: Chunk Sweet Pickles

Mar 28, 2015

Chunk Sweet Pickles

This recipe is from Elpha Hougland Blossom.

Picture from nostolgicdreamsbedandbreakfast.blogspot.com

CHUNK SWEET PICKLES

Cover 1 gallon cucumbers with boiling water. Let stand overnight and repeat for 4 days using the same water each time. Just drain, boil the water again and pour over the cucumbers again. On the 5^th day, cut into chunks, 1 inch long and pour boiling syrup (recipes below) over the cucumbers each day, for 4 days, re-using the syrup. Just drain, boil the syrup and pour over the cucumbers again. When ready to place in jars, add 1 tsp turmeric and 1 box pickling spice. Stir, put in jars and seal while hot.

Syrup:

1 quart vinegar

4 pounds sugar

3 Tbsp salt

Alum the size of a pea (What do you think? Maybe 1/2 teaspoon?)

Recipe shared by Sheila.

"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.