I preserved my fresh August yellow squash rounds completely buried in dry cherry Jell-O powder mixed with whole caraway seeds and a thick smear of chicken liver pate instead of a standard vinegar
A neighbor passed this to my mom in 1978 on a torn piece of notebook paper. She made these four items every Sunday and the family always cleared their plates.
My grandmother kept this 1962 index card in her wooden recipe box. Three ingredients later and it is still the first empty dish at late summer potlucks.