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I'm hesitant to assume it's a typo because the process that puts a recipe in the official list of food preservation techniques is pretty rigorous. I haven't tr

I'm hesitant to assume it's a typo because the process that puts a recipe in the official list of food preservation techniques is pretty rigorous. I haven't tried this recipe but I wonder if the sugar is used as the preservative instead of salt- it functions in a similar way, inhibiting bacterial growth after a certain point because osmosis competes for the water that bacteria need to grow.

technothrasher 3y ago
But then why is does their reduced sodium "sweet" pickle recipe have about half that sugar as their "dill" recipe? Anyway, I've got a recipe that I use that has no salt or sugar in it, but I treat them as refrigerator pickles as I don't want to trust that they'd stay preserved correctly with only the vinegar.