How to Keep Pickles If You Lost the Juice

Its easy to make more pickle juice.

While most consumers tend to eat the pickles and then are left with excess pickle juice, you may find yourself with pickles but no juice to keep them in. This is actually an easy fix, you just need to make more pickle juice. To make more pickle juice (sometimes referred to a pickle brine), you need to use a cold brine recipe. Hot pickle juice can further pickle the vegetables, making them inedible. Once you've added the new juice to the pickles, you can continue to store them.

Things You'll Need

• ½ cup vinegar
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ tbsp. celery seed
• ½ tbsp. mustard seed
• ½ tbsp. dill seed
• ½ cup onions (thinly sliced)
• ½ cup green peppers (thinly sliced)
• Bowl
• Pickles
• Sealable container

Instructions

1. Mix the ingredients together in the bowl.

2. Put the pickles in the container.

3. Pour the brine over the pickles.

4. Put the lid on the pickles and keep refrigerated until you are ready to eat them.

References

• "The Complete Book of Pickling"; Jennifer MacKenzie; 2009
• "The Joy of Pickling"; Linda Ziedrich; 1998
• "Pickled: Vegetables, Fruits, Roots, More--Preserving a World of Tastes and Traditions"; Lucy Norris and Elizabeth Watt; 2003