[Ads-l] bread-and-butter pickles

[Peter Reitan]

1925 is the earliest I've seen.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39778735/lincoln_journal_star/


This one gives him the credit.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39779118/sterling_daily_gazette/

While this one shows she took multiple, extended business trips related to her bread and butter pickle business.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39778647/the_times/
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Do those citations show that the name came about before the Great =
Depression? BB

> On 28 Nov 2019, at 21:52, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> The "Bread and Butter"pickle appears to have been invented by Mrs. =
Omar Fanning, the former Cora Eades, of Streator, Illinois in the =
mid-1920s.  Mr. Fanning raised cucumbers and his wife and mother in law =
pickled smaller waste cucumbers.  People liked them and they built a =
successful business out of it, the Fanning Bread and Butter Pickle =
Company.
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> Some early articles refer to her famous bread and butter pickles.  =
Later articles credit them with inventing the pickles of that name.
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> The earliest examples (1925 and 1926) are specifically their pickles.
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>> The OED and Merriam-Webster do not list it.
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> That's quite surprising! I've been familiar with the term since early
> childhood, so that I've never wondered what the origin of it might be. =
It
> would have been like wondering what the meaning of _is_ is.
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> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:19 AM Barretts Mail =
<mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I made bread-and-butter pickles this year for the first time. I used =
my
>> grandmother=3DE2=3D80=3D99s recipe and wondered about the name, which =
I saw use=3D
> d on some
>> pickles at the grocery store.
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>> Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bread-and-butter_pickle <
>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bread-and-butter_pickle>) says its a =
sweet
>> pickle used in sandwiches. The OED and Merriam-Webster do not list =
it.
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>> According to Cottage at the Crossroads (
>> https://cottageatthecrossroads.com/bread-and-butter-pickles/ <
>> https://cottageatthecrossroads.com/bread-and-butter-pickles/>), the =
name
>> comes from the Depression when they were used on bread-and-butter
>> sandwiches, which were a cheap meal.
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>> That recipe uses onion, vinegar, sugar, mustard seed, celery seed and
>> turmeric, all of which are in my grandmother=3DE2=3D80=3D99s recipe =
(which also=3D
> includes
>> bell pepper).

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