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They were my number-two favorites when I was a kid...her pickled carrots were my absolute number one favorite! I'll have to dig through the old wooden box and see if I can find it----thanks for jogging my memory!~~
Thanks for your timely article. I'm glad you showed the pictures, it'll help when I go to make my first batch. My mom loved these when I was a child and I'm the only one that ever bought them for her. I'm guessing she'll be surprised when I take her some & if I'm lucky they'll taste similar to the ones she used to eat. My goodness, nothing brought a bigger smile to moms face than these pickles. The recipe sounds wonderful!
imapigeon,
Thanks for reading and commenting. I've never had pickled carrots. Were they sweet or sour? Were the chunked, sliced or whole? So welcome...stop by anytime.
davis1676,
You are very welcome. I hope you enjoy making them. They are a lot of work but well worth it. I hope your mom is tickled pink w/ your creation. Thanks for commenting. I love reading everyone's comments.
Mom's pickled carrots were tart and crunchy. They were an EXCELLENT companion to her sweet watermelon rind pickles. She only made them a few times when I was little, and I pestered her most of my adult life for the recipe. (Knowing my mom, it probably irritated the heck out of her.) Anyway, when she passed away, I found a recipe in the loose-leaf notebook that she started when she was first married. All the recipes in that book were typed on her old Royal portable on nice vellum paper, so I have hopes that it's the one. I haven't made them yet, but I'm hoping they'll be close to the ones I remember. She used big carrots and made them into sticks, but I'll bet the bagged baby ones we can get now would work just great.
When my grandma, (who was a Home Ec major in college in the early 1900s) died, she had a whole cabinet of recipe boxes and books. I went through it looking for the dirty cards, figuring those were worth keeping as they'd been made more than once...LOL!
They sound good.
That is a good idea about keeping the dirty cards. :-)
I've begun writing the date and a note in cookbooks so I know when the recipe was used and if we liked it. That has been fun to look back and see it was 18 years ago that I made a cake for hubby.
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