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World War I poster. "Waste not, want not. Prepare for winter. Save perishable foods by preserving now."

In this category, you will find recipes for pickles and preserves. Some of the recipes might be strange or unusual but hopefully they will give you some ideas and inspiration.

I do hope this section grows because with the advent of freezers, preserving is not needed on the same scale it used to be; however, some products like preserved lemons, pickled onions, dill pickles and chutneys, to name but a few, are about taste and flavour, not preservation. As with dips and sauces, the added benefit of making rather than buying is that you can add your favourite ingredients so the end product is exactly to your taste.

Methods of preservation

Preserving food can refer to:

• Smoking food
• Pickling food
• Freezing food
• Dehydrating food
• Bottling and canning foods
• Curing

Useful links

• Pickling as a food preparation method
• Mamta's Kitchen (pickles & chutney selection))

How much does one cup of jam / pickles / preserves weigh?

Estimated US cup to weight equivalents:

Conversion notes:

Every ingredient has a cups to ounces or to grams conversion table. Search for the ingredient, and then cup to weight conversions are at the end of each ingredient page. We also have a generic conversion table and a portions per person lookup.

PICKLES AND PRESERVE RECIPES