Dill Pickles

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    sour, garlic dill pickles
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Canon of Vegetables

By Raymond Sokolov

Published 2007

  • About

A man once got up at a reading that I, B. Singer gave at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in New York and asked the great Yiddish writer’s advice about dealing with a troublesome nephew. When the questioner subsided, Singer paused, looked at him with evident sympathy, and said: “I too have a nephew.”

I think of that delicious moment as I am about to tell you about my grandma Mary’s dill pickles. I can hear you thinking: I too have a grandma who made incomparable (