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      Title: Sweet & Sour Pickled Gherkins
 Categories: Vegetable, German, Wine
      Yield: 4 Jars
 
      1 kg Gherkins
     50 g  Salt
      1 l  Wine vinegar (6%)  }
     50 ml Vinegar concentrate}
    270 g  Sugar
      6 tb Mustard seed
      4    Bay leaves
      8    Button onions/shallots
      8    Sprigs dill
 
  NB You need 1l of vinegar at 7%. This can also be made from 50:50 6%
  wine vinegar and 8% white spirit vinegar, or 1:2 cider to spirit. You
  could even use 7:1 spirit vinegar to water.
  
  Wash and brush the gherkins. Sprinkle with the salt and leave in a
  bowl turning from time to time for 24 hours. After this time, wash
  and dry them and pack into sterile "1lb" jars, together with a couple
  (or more) pickling onions or shallots per jar.
  
  Put vinegar, concentrate and sugar in a pan, warm to dissolve the
  sugar and bring rapidly to the boil. Straightaway, pour this over the
  gherkins in the jars, making sure they are well covered. Add a
  bayleaf & sprig of dill per jar, and sprinkle over 1 1/2 tbs of
  mustard seed (1 heaped) per jar. Cover and leave 2 months before
  using.
  
  Recipe (pinched and adapted) IMH Georges' Home BBS 2:323/4.4
  
  From: Ian Hoare                       Date: 13 Jan 97 National
  Cooking Echo Ä
 
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