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[[Image:RecipePreserved lemons.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Preserved lemons]]
Pickling began as a way to preserve food for out-of-season use and for long journeys, especially by sea. Salt pork and salt beef were common staples for sailors before the days of steam engines. Although the process was invented to preserve foods, pickles are also made and eaten because people enjoy the resulting flavours. Pickling may also improve the nutritious value of food by introducing [[B vitamins]] produced by bacteria.
===Foods that are often pickled===

* '''[[Vegetables]]:''' [[ginger]], [[lotus root]], [[Garlic|garlic]], [[asparagus]], [[onion]], [[radish]], [[green beans]], [[eggplant]]
* '''[[Capers]]:''' and [[olives]] are usually served pickled in the West (unlike the salt-cured versions favored in the Orient).
* '''[[Fruit]]:''' [[mango]], [[kumquat]], [[Preserved lemons|lemon]], [[peach]], [[watermelon]] rind
* '''[[Peppers]]:''' and [[chiles]]: banana peppers, [[jalapeños]], etc.,
* '''[[Meat]]:''' beef (to make [[corned beef]] and pastrami), pork, ham
* [[Fish]]
* [[Eggs]]
* [[Okra]]

==Recipes for pickles and preserves==
Our '''[[:Category:Pickles and preserves|pickles and preserves recipes section]]''' has an ever-growing number of tried and tested recipes.

We have a great recipe for [[Preserved lemons|preserved lemons]] that is now a staple in our kitchen.  Give it a try.

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