With a relatively good garden harvest this year, Motivated Mom and I have been "putting up" pickles, cauliflower, salsa, and spaghetti sauce. Well, okay, it's been mostly Motivated Mom doing the putting up but, hey, I grew the vegetables.
We found a new pickle recipe on the internet this year and have been excited by the results. Some of the ingredients are familiar - sugar, onion, vinegar. Others are a little more unique - such as one inch of cinnamon stick and 6 allspice berries.
And I got to wondering... What in the world inspired someone to try putting a cinnamon stick in the pickling mix - and how did the person decide one inch of cinnamon stick was better than two inches? And then there's those berries. Six. Really? I mean, why not five or ten?
It would have to be a dedicated "putter upper" to come up with such precise counts.
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