How did dill pickles get thier name?

Question

How did dill pickles get thier name? Was thier inventor names Dill?

Answer 1

I love it when I learn something new.

As for the word pickle; The Middle English word Pikel meant "a spicy sauce or gravy served with meat or fowl" as early as 1400. The middle Dutch word pekel referred to a solution, such as spiced brine, for preserving and flavoring food. After it came to the English language, the connotations of the word expanded to include brining for preservation, and to the ingredients that had been treated or transformed in the brine. The Dutch phrase in de pekel zitten, "sit in the pickle," probably gave rise to the figurative meaning of being "in a pickle" as being in a difficult or problematic situation. Modern slang adopted "pickled" as a synonym for drunk.

Scientifically, a pickle is any perishable ingredient that has been preserved in a brine. But pickling isn't only about science it's about tradition, community, economy, responsibility, and family. Our ancestors - no matter what part of the globe they hailed from - pickled to preserve fruits, vegetables, meat, and fish. They pickled to save money. They pickled, together with family and friends, to assure safety and make the most out of their foods. Harsh winters, humid tropical climates, short growing seasons, poor soil, fast-spoiling staples (such as fish), even summer abundance and gardening pride - all have spawned the arts of pickling and food preservation.
The history of New York is steeped in pickling traditions. Though the pickle pushcarts and wooden barrels on the stoops of the Lower East Side that used to sell "Pickles for a Penny" are long gone, the legacy of cucumber pickles lives on in our collective appetites.

Answer 2

Dill spice added to the process of pickling (the process of preserving a food by soaking and storing it in a brine) a cucumber (the most common pickled thing in the US).

Answer 3

No, they are flavored with the HERB DILL. Its a hairy like herb that produces seeds. The flavor of fresh dill is the flavor of a pickle. Pickles are made by bathing cucumbers in a brine of dill, pickling spices, vinegar, sugar, and calcium chloride.

Answer 4

The actual items are cucumbers that are pickled in vinegar and spices. The active verb itself gives them their name.

Pickling results in "pickles".

Go have you a mess of some. Dills are great!

Answer 5

Dill. i do unlike candy ones, and bread & butter pickles are gross. i admire mine with cheese too, and in keeping with hazard some salami.... I additionally drink pickle juice for the comparable reason as ok-Dizz lol