How to pickle things
I've found myself pickling things quite often. Its quite enjoyable.
Ingredients
- A fruit/vegetable of your choice
- Dill to taste
- 5 grams of peppercorns
- 3 grams of fennel seeds
- 3 grams of mustard seeds
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 cup white vinegar
- 1 cup water
- 2 spoonfuls salt
- 1 spoonful sugar
This is all assuming one of those standard mason jars.
I eyeball most of it so these are rough estimates. adjust them to your tastes.
Preparation
the contents
- Peel 3 cloves of garlic
- Add dill, mustard seeds, fennel seeds, and peppercorns. You can add whatever pickling spices you feel like; these are just my personal choices
- Dice up vegetable into small chunks
- Put it all into your mason jar
the brine
- put equal parts water and vinegar into a saucepan
- add salt and sugar
- bring to a rolling boil, pour into mason jar over contents until covered
Put the jars lid on and put into the fridge, let sit for a couple hours.
The food should last for a couple weeks, i doubt it'll ever go poisonous because of the vinegar but it'll probably go soggy after a while.