Pickled Limes

Limes were introduced to Britain in the late seventeenth century, and their juice quickly became popular, used in punches. They were also pickled; the particular pickling mixture here is Indian in influence, using green chillies, mustard seeds, ginger, star anise and fenugreek.

Star anise is a star-shaped ‘pod’, the fruit of an evergreen tree related to the magnolia that grows wild in China and Japan. Within each of the star’s petals a small oval, light brown seed is found, and thes