2 years, 7 months ago
How to cure green olives? Anyone has a recipe or way to do it?
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Here are the synopsis of an ehow article about how to cure green olives.
Please credit the original author fully. As it's a lengthy procedure i thought a web search is a must.
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Pick olives while they're still green.
Wash the olives carefully, looking for debris and rotten or bruised olives.
Purchase 100 percent lye from a hardware store and rubber gloves to protect your hands from the lye.
Keep vinegar handy to neutralize lye in case it does splash onto your skin or other surfaces.
Have glass or porcelain jars ready and fill them halfway with olives.
Measure 1 tbs. of lye per qt. of water in a separate glass container. Carefully pour the solution over green olives in the jars until they are completely covered.
Adding more solution to top off the jar may speed up curing process.
Soak for 12 hours.
Carefully drain solution from jars and dump lye solution down the drain.
Thoroughly rinse olives in fresh water.
Soak olives in fresh cold water for 3 days, changing the water at least twice a day to remove the lye and residual flavors of the lye from the olives.
Drain olives again after 3 days.
Now, your olives are ready for storage in a brine solution.
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Please credit the original author fully. As it's a lengthy procedure i thought a web search is a must.
---quote---
Pick olives while they're still green.
Wash the olives carefully, looking for debris and rotten or bruised olives.
Purchase 100 percent lye from a hardware store and rubber gloves to protect your hands from the lye.
Keep vinegar handy to neutralize lye in case it does splash onto your skin or other surfaces.
Have glass or porcelain jars ready and fill them halfway with olives.
Measure 1 tbs. of lye per qt. of water in a separate glass container. Carefully pour the solution over green olives in the jars until they are completely covered.
Adding more solution to top off the jar may speed up curing process.
Soak for 12 hours.
Carefully drain solution from jars and dump lye solution down the drain.
Thoroughly rinse olives in fresh water.
Soak olives in fresh cold water for 3 days, changing the water at least twice a day to remove the lye and residual flavors of the lye from the olives.
Drain olives again after 3 days.
Now, your olives are ready for storage in a brine solution.
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M$
thank you very much for the infos re curing green olives,it is very helpful.I am a white belt yet so i cannot vote a yes yet for your helpful answer.Appreciate it much, but instead of the lye i optioned to the salt solution because i am not so acquainted with that chemical solution.i did the same method though as you've mentioned.I am sure it will be good.thanks a lot.