Bread-and-Butter Pickles

These are the same everyday bread-and-butter pickles I helped my mother put up when I was a child in North Carolina, and that I still can in large quantities when the first small, firm summer Kirbys ripen in the garden—or sell for less than forty-nine cents a pound in the market. All modesty aside, they are the finest bread-and-butter pickles in the South—and a far cry from those bland, limp, overpriced commercial ones found in supermarkets. Fail to allow the salted cucumber rounds to crisp