Here’s why. A safe brine for pickling and canning has a certain salt and vinegar percentage that ensures the vegetable – cucumbers, green beans, beets, whatever – will be properly acidulated to prevent the growth ofClostridium botulinumand other nasty microbes. When a vegetable is pickled, t...
For a guy sitting under a palm tree and without access to electricity, the only means to cool down is to keep on eating hot peppers and drinking beer.Pepper is basically added for flavor. It has no value as a preservative and has little effect when added to brine cures since it can ...