Alastair Little, Richard Whittington

Pickling Vinegar

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

  • About

Supermarkets sell pickling vinegar in large jars, suitable for the onions or whatever you want to preserve, but it is easy to make. You can use either white spirit vinegar or malt vinegar for the base liquid.

Ingredients

  • 1.75 litres/ 3 pints vinegar
  • 7.5-cm / 3-

Method

Put the vinegar in the top part of a double boiler. If you don’t have one, sit a bowl with a lid over a pan of gently simmering water. You should find one of your saucepan lids to fit.

Add the ginger, cloves, cinnamon stick, allspice berries, bay leaves and peppercorns. Put over a low heat for 2 hours.

Pass through a muslin-lined sieve and you are ready to start pickling.