Name: Pickling Green Olives
Ingredients: green olives; water; coarse sea salt; baking soda

Pickling Green Olives

Ingredients

green olives
water
coarse sea salt
baking soda

Directions

Select perfect green olives, discarding any bruised or damaged ones.
Soak the selected olives in fresh water for several days, changing the water frequently.
Prepare a pickling mixture with common salt and baking soda, ensuring the olives are completely covered.
Pack the olives in bottles or kegs for preservation.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.