Category Pickles

Pickle recipes from Aunt Bertha’s Recipe Box, including sweet and sour pickles, pickled vegetables, relishes, and other home-canned favorites.

Bertha’s Cucumber Pickles

A handwritten recipe for Bertha’s Cucumber Pickles, made with cider vinegar, mustard seed, mixed spices, onion, and a sweet-tart syrup before being packed into jars.

Olave Pickles

A sweet green tomato and onion pickle seasoned with mustard, pepper, allspice and cloves.

Scott’s Sweet Pickles

A handwritten recipe for Scott’s Sweet Pickles—pack the jars, turn them every few days, and let two weeks do the rest.

Lizzie’s Dill Pickles

A handwritten recipe for Lizzie’s Dill Pickles—with a hot three-ingredient brine, one line of directions, and, curiously enough, no dill in sight.