Pickled Samphire

Preserving has always been used to keep food collected from a bumper crop for a longer time, to enable it to be enjoyed out of season. Depending on the items to be preserved, sugar, salt, vinegar or alcohol can be the means of halting the natural deterioration. However, in the process the taste and texture of the original items can change dramatically, to produce a completely new range of foods, each containing different characteristics. Pickled, samphire becomes an interesting accompanimen