I KNEW we were doing the right thing with a summer camp garden when we started teaching the campers how to make refrigerator pickles. These are kids ages 10 to 15.
On the table was a massive bowl of cucumbers, a box of salt, several jugs of vinegar, and assorted spices. I announced that today we would be making refrigerator pickles. One of the campers said, "Awesome" Where are the pickles?" I told him, "you're making them." "Out of what?", he asked. "Cucumbers," I said. TO A PERSON, they all stood there with their mouths hanging open until one camper said "Pickles come from cucumbers? Whoa!"
That SAME interaction happens EVERY time we make pickles.
-- Michelle Zupan
Curator
Hickory Hill & the Tom Watson Birthplace
502 Hickory Hill Drive
Thomson, GA 30824
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