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- From: kdeck@epaus.island.net
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Curing Olives
- Date: 20 Jan 1995 14:51:02 -0000
- Organization: ICL Retail Systems,Bracknell,Berks,UK
- Message-ID: <3foikm$87u@jerry.rb.icl.co.uk>
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- Title: Seasoned Green Olives - Country Living
- Categories: .cl, Appetizers
- Yield: 15 appetizer
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- 1 lb Fresh green olives
- 2 c Water
- 2 tb Uniodized or pickling salt
- 1 c White-wine vinegar
- 1 Lemon, halved, seeded, and
- -cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 tb Dried or 3 T chopped fresh
- -oregano
- 3 Cloves garlic, halved
- 1/4 c Olive oil
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- 1. With flat side of meat mallet or rolling pin, crush each olive just to
- crack the flesh. Place cracked olives in 1-quart jar. Add enough cold water
- to cover olives and insert a small, sealed plastic food-stor- age bag
- filled with 1/4 C water to keep the olives immersed. Seal jar; refrigerate
- 3 weeks, changing water in jar every day.
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- 2. After 3 weeks, sample an olive-it should be only slightly bitter.
- Continue to soak olives in water if still very bitter.
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- 3. When olives are ready, in 1-quart saucepan, heat 2 C water to boiling.
- Add salt and stir to dissolve. Set brine aside to cool to room temperature.
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- 4. Drain olives and rinse in cold water: Place cured olives in clean 1
- -quart jar. Cover olives with cooled brine. Stir in vinegar, lemon cubes,
- oregano, and garlic. Top with olive oil and seal jar. Refrig- erate olives
- at least 1 month to develop flavor. Olives will keep for 2 more months
- refrigerated. Drain before serving.
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- Country Living/Sept/94
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- Title: Two Methods To Cure Olives - Country Living
- Categories: Can/preserv, Info
- Yield: 1 info
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- To salt cure ripe olives: Use small unbruised black or purplish-black
- olives. Cover bottom of clean slatted wooden box (such as a fruit lug or a
- flat rectangular basket with a double layer of cheesecloth. Rinse olives
- in cold water and put a layer on bottom of box. Cover damp olives with a
- layer of uniodized or pickling salt. (For each pound of olives, you'll need
- at least a pound of salt for the monthlong process.) Repeat layering olives
- and salt, then cover the entire batch with a final layer of salt and
- another piece of cloth. Set box into a tray or cardboard box so that the
- liquid that seeps out will not stain the countertop or floor; store in cool
- basement or garge and let stand one week. After a week, uncover and
- transfer olives and salt to another container. Re-layer olives with
- additional salt in the same cloth-lined box for about three to four days.
- Repeat layering and salting olives every four days for one month, using new
- salt each time, until olives are wrinkled and lose enough bitterness to be
- edible. (If any mold appears on the olives, rinse mold off with cold water
- and soak olives in bowl of distilled white vinegar for one hour, then
- return to salt. Otherwise, there is no need to rinse the olives in water
- before returning them to the salt cure.) In batches, remove cured olives
- from salt; place them in a large strainer or a colander. Dip strainer or
- colander into saucepan of boiling water for a few seconds. Drain blanched
- olives and rinse with cold tap water. (Repeat this step with remaining
- olives, changing boiling water whenever it gets too salty-after about every
- 12th dip.) Spread olives out on paper towels to dry for a few hours or
- overnight. Place olives in jars and cover with olive oil. If desired, mix
- in herbs, hot peppers, garlic, vinegar, or grated orange or lemon rind.
- Store sealed jars in the refrigerator. The olives will keep for at least
- one month. Dry-cured olives may also stored in new salt in airtight
- containers for up to six months in the refrigerator. Before using
- salt-stored olives, rinse and dry the fruits.
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- To brine cure green or ripe olives: Use mature fully colored green or
- dark-red to purplish-black olives. The ripe olives may fade in color
- during curing but they will darken again when exposed to air. With small
- knife, slash each olive to its pit three times. Rinse in water. Place
- rinsed and drained olives in one-quart glass jars, filling them 3/4 full.
- Cover the olives with a brine containing 3/4 cup uniodized or pickling salt
- dissolved in a gallon of water. Insert a small, sealed food-storage bag
- filled with 1/4 cup water into each jar to keep olives immersed in brine.
- Screw on the lid loosely and refrigerate. After one week, replace the
- brine with a mixture of 1 2/3 cups salt per gallon of water. After 15 days
- replace the brine with another mixture of 1 2/3 cups salt per gallon of
- water. Replace the brine at 1-month intervals for additional two to three
- months. If you keep the olives airtight in brine, you can store them for
- at least one year. You can eat these olives within two months if you like
- fairly-bitter olives. Use them for cooking or season them for appetizers.
- To rduce their saltiness, soak the olives in fresh water three days. Store
- any uneaten desalted olives in the refrigerator in a solution of one part
- red or white wine vinegar to two parts water and float a layer of olive oil
- on top to preserve them.
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- Country Living/Sept/94
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