Virginia Chunk Sweet Pickles

(Texas Regional State Fair three time Blue Ribbon winner 2021)             This three-time Blue Ribbon winning sweet pickle was a creation of my great-great grandmother MawMaw Ellis.  She called them “Virginia chunks” and had never traveled outside the state of Texas.  A little ancestry work shows that her grandparents and great grandparents were from Virginia.  My granddaughter Claire Bear calls the “yummy.”  These pickles take 12 days to make and brine for a week before the sugar and spices transform them into nearly candy.