Pickle liquor

Name: Pickle liquor
Yield: Makes about 500 ml
Ingredients: 100 g caster sugar; 200 ml cider vinegar; ½ tsp dill seeds; 1 tsp fine salt; ½ tsp fennel seeds; ½ tsp cumin seeds; 10 sprigs thyme; 2 bay leaves; 200 ml rice vinegar

Preparation info

Makes about
500 ml

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Changing Tides

By Roberta Hall McCarron

Published 2024

About

It’s great to have a batch of this in the fridge, so you can knock up some pickles at a moment’s notice! It will keep in a sealed jar for up to 4 weeks.

Ingredients

200 ml rice vinegar
200 ml cider vinegar
100 g</

Drinks
Vegan

Method

Put the rice and cider vinegars in a pot with the sugar and salt and 100ml water. Bring to the boil, then add the dill, cumin, fennel, bay and thyme. Leave to infuse as it cools. Once at room temperature, pass the pickle liquor through a fine sieve into a jar.