I'm wanting to make watermelon rind lime pickles that calls for "shaved lime". Is that simply shaving the outer dark green layer of a lime?
Lime Pickles
I'm wanting to make watermelon rind lime pickles that calls for "shaved lime". Is that simply shaving the outer dark green layer of a lime?
Post the recipe. It does sound like that's what it is, but I couldn't say for sure without seeing the recipe.....
This sounds intresting. As some of you know, I'm new with all this cooking/baking stuff, so I've never heard of this. I second what K.Slink said, Post the Recipe.
Mariah-RoseCass
Not from limes the fruit. It's pickling lime, the chemical calcium hydroxide, a derivative of quicklime also known as slaked lime, or builder's lime because it's an ingredient in plaster and mortar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrated_lime
That was my first thought too, about pickling lime, but when has it ever been referred to as being SHAVED? Maybe I missed something in the post, but I don't think so...at least not yet!
Well, I guess this shows how little most of us know about pickling anything. I had considered trying it, but decided not to. All the boiling of the jars and keeping things airtight is a little too scary for me. I thought the idea of using lime in pickles could be a quite intriguing idea, though. The lime fruit.
I think the recipe may have called for slaked lime, and it was just misspelled.
Wouldn't it be so helpful if the original poster gave us the recipe and instructions....
I bet you could pickle things using lime juice instead of vinegar; it's acid enough. You'd need a lot of it, but somebody with a lime tree could try it.Originally Posted by brigid
See my post on favorite cookbooks, it's a winner.....
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
