He held a shriveled pickle and rinsed it back and forth in the boiling hot pot. He could rinse it eighteen times in one meal. Miraculously, he actually cooked this pickle for a whole month without finishing it - because every time he cooked it, he only lightly dipped it into the bottom of the pot to get a little salty taste. Nowadays, this "extremely long-lasting" pickle has long been a regular fixture on his family's dining table.
