The Christmas countdown is on and Sarson’s vinegar have launched their new pickling jar. The all-in-one jar has been designed to give plenty of room for all your vegetables alongside delicious ready-spiced pickling juices made with Sarson’s time-honoured recipe.
It is a great idea, both for keeping for yourself or also to create home made gifts, such as a ‘Pickle-mix’ jar for a homemade gift or pickled delicacies for the Christmas spread. Sarson’s pickled festive cocktail recipes are also an idea to consider from the warming pickled hot toddy to a delicious spiced Moscow Mule.
I had the opportunity to try out the Pickling Jar; since using Oddbox I often have a lot of vegetables that I do not know what to do with (mooli, anyone?) or way too many of (there’s only so much beetroot I can roast) so I have been experimenting with preserving a lot, pickling being one of the methods I have tried out.
Of course, there’s quick pickle, spiced pickled and so on… but to use a pre-spiced pickling vinegar is a pretty cool idea if you’re pressed for time or if – like me – you have a husband that complains about that strong vinegary smells that permeates the kitchen when you’re boiling the stuff to prepare for pickling.
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While there’s fun to have in choosing spices and herbs as well as vinegars and additions, opening up a jar of ready made pickling vinegar is just so easy! I had a bunch of carrots, cucumbers and beetroot and one mooli, so I cut them up, gave them a quick boil following my friend Danilo Cortellini‘s giardiniera recipe and once, cooled and patted dry, I placed them in a sterilised jar and covered with Sarson’s Pickling Vinegar …et voila’!
Very quick and easy, it’s a brilliant idea for those short on time or not brave enough for trying their own pickling solution.
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