sweet lime pickles

 I am blessed to have generous gardeners in my circle of friends.
We've enjoyed beans, sweet corn, kohlrabi, cabbage tomatoes and zucchini this year, thanks to them.
Their garden is producing a great crop of cucumbers.
I made one batch of refrigerator pickles this week using a recipe off the internet.

In talking with Donna one day, I mentioned three types of pickles

that my grandmother used to make.

When I found her recipe, Donna went to work cutting and soaking the cukes.

 Bright and early yesterday morning, I went to her farmhouse for the final steps--

boiling raisins (in cheescloth above) in the sweet pickling juices

and filling the jars.

We chatted a bit and listened to the lids popping.

Later in the evening, she and her husband delivered several jars to us.

Now I'm searching for a sweet pickled watermelon rind recipe.

Unfortunately, I don't have my grandmother's in my collection, 

but it is the SECOND one of my favorites.  The third is a dill pickle that she made...