Olives Vertes d’Abel Broc

Name: Olives Vertes d’Abel Broc (Abel Broc’s Green Olives)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 80 g (scant 3 oz) salt per litre of water; 12 kg(26 lb) green olives; 1 litre(1¾ pt) sodium hydroxide

Abel Broc’s Green Olives

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

French Country Kitchen

By Geraldene Holt

Published 1987

About

M. Abel Broc lives next door to the Marquets. In early October when his olives are still green he picks some for home preserving, and the rest are left to ripen on the trees to be crushed for oil.

Ingredients

12 kg(26 lb) green olives
1 litre(1¾

Europe
France
Preserve
Mediterranean
Vegan
Gluten-free
October

Method

Wash the dust from the olives and remove their stalks. Prick each olive with a hatpin if you have time.

Mix 9 litres(2 gallons) cold water with the sodium carbonate, stir until dissolved and then a