[Magdalen] Pickling update (as usual, Hey Jay!).

[Marion Thompson]

.... and would make the eggs an ugly colour.  I love pickled eggs.

Marion, a pilgrim



On 6/22/2016 5:44 AM, Roger Stokes wrote:
> On 22/06/2016 03:51, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>> My cheating "Kimchi Pickles" came out beautiful, retaining their 
>> crispness, and the vinegar mixing with the chili garlic sauce is, 
>> though coughingly powerful, great.  A recipe winner.
>>
>> And tonight I did something different, maybe.  Two dozen small 
>> hardboiled eggs in a 64 oz jar, with 26 oz of red wine vinegar. Just 
>> perfectly filled to the lid, which I screwed on tight.  In the fridge 
>> they went.  I wrote the date on the top, and told the boy to keep his 
>> distance until I say they're done.  Harrumph. Also a recipe winner.  
>> (How can it go wrong?)
>
> Pickled eggs used to be found in mant a bar in England, though not so 
> much now.  I think they were generally in distilled (clear) vinegar 
> though I understand some prefer malt vinegar.  They certainly would 
> not have been in red wine vinegar. It wasn't generally available and 
> would have been seen as too posh for the Public Bar.
>
> Roger
>