Sweet-and-Sour Seedless Grapes

Perhaps the most accomplished of all our pickle cooks, in recent times at least, was Catherine Emig Plagemann (1905-1976). A descendant of the old York County Emigs, she wrote a small masterpiece called Fine Preserving in 1967. The late M.F.K. Fisher was so taken with Mrs. Plagemann’s book that she edited a new edition in 1986. Unfortunately, in modernizing some of