This is an easy experiment I think you will like.  If you have a certain favorite pickle or pickled vegetable that you buy at the store then after eating all the contents inside the jar save the ‘pickling’ juice or liquid.

You can then experiment buy adding more cucumber or other vegetable back to the liquid and give it a good 5 to 7 days back in the refrigerator before trying/eating your newest pickled treat.

Additional things you can do:

1. add more herb/spices or a hot pepper or two
2. use a ’shot’ of a different kind of vinegar to enhance the taste; cider, wine, balsamic, rice, seasoned vinegar.  But be prepared to except that it may just make it taste worse!
3. add some MORE garlic or shallots (or other vegetable) to increase a certain taste you like
4. add a sugar (honey, brown, cane…) of some  sort to make it a bit more sweet

I can’t guarantee doing all of this will make it taste better, that’s up to you to figure out.  Usually we (my wife and I) only refill the jar twice after the original purchase, water does come out of the new ingredient(s) so the concentration of pickling gets diluted.  It also works better when the cucumbers are cut or sliced.

Just thought I might give you a new idea to play around with without getting to scientific about it!  And yes this is the cheater version of the already easy Refrigerator Pickles.

[picture by saltyseadog]

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