Title: Grandmother's Crocked Pickles (From Grandmother's Cellar)
Categories: Pickle
Yield: 1 Recipe

10	c	Salt
20	c	Sugar
10	c	Dry mustard
20	qt	Vinegar
10	qt	Water
		Fresh cucumbers

Mix all brine ingredients and put in large crock. Add cucumbers to fill. If large ones are used, slice lengthwise. Leave for a few weeks. If you wish to cut down on the brine for a smaller crock of pickles, a little arithmetic will do that. Add more cucumbers and brine as supply dwindles.

from book: My mother told me, "From the time I was a little girl, and right through my high school years, the crock was never empty." Mother's pickles were favorites, and my school friends often walked me home to "fish" all the pickles they could eat from the crock. By supper time Mother never understood why we were not hungry. Today, in memory of Grandmother's pickle crock is this recipe.

from "The Farmer's Daughter Cookbook" by Kandy Norton Henely, The Farmer's Daughter. typed and posted by teri chesser 8/95

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