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Fascinating! Are there any other countries with traditions of intentionally aged "vintage" pickles?
by resolutebat 3y ago
Fascinating! Are there any other countries with traditions of intentionally aged "vintage" pickles?
- tap-snap-or-nap 3y agoKorean Kimchi making shares a similar process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimjang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimjang
- sidkshatriya 3y agoAging food in a pickling medium/paste for taste and/or preservation is quite common globally. Wikipedia as usual provides a nice overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickling
- riffic 3y agolactofermentation is an ancient and widespread practice.
- ahoka 3y agoNot pickles, but if your family makes jam in Hungary, then it’s not unusual to have a few jars of decades old ones, made by a long dead relative. We have a 20 year old plum jam we recently brought from the country house’s pantry.
- curl-up 3y agoTrue across Balkans. There are some fruits (e.g. apricots) which have a highly variable yield from year to year, so eating a 5+ year old jam (from a year with exceptionally high yield) is not strange.