Pickling
by olivia law
Pickling is one food preservation technique that many people still carry out today. Even in student-aimed recipe books, instructions are provided for making kimchee and sauerkraut, both of which use pickling techniques.
This section has a comparatively small introduction relative to the sheer amount of recipes — all of which are similar, using the vegetable, a form of cider vinegar — now considered a modern “superfood” (sometimes diluted), mustardseed and brown sugar.
The “mixed pickles” recipe has a long list of ingredients, as it essentially combines every other recipe from the chapter.
The entire recipe takes more than three days, as it involves repeating a vinegar rinse, cooling, placing in jars and standing.