118 brine recipes

Single-jar homemade dill pickles with fresh dill heads, garlic, and apple cider vinegar brine. Small-batch refrigerator pickles that cure for 2 weeks before they're ready.

Green tomato relish with onions, red bell peppers, and banana peppers in a tangy white vinegar brine with pickling spices. A classic end-of-season canning recipe that yields 11 pints.

Marinated olives with garlic, orange zest, and fennel seeds warmed in olive oil. An Italian-style appetizer that improves with time. Ready in hours, not days.

Spicy homemade dill pickles with hot chili peppers, garlic, mustard seeds, and fresh dill in a vinegar brine. Crunchy, fiery refrigerator pickles ready in 3 to 4 weeks.

Watermelon rind pickle is a Southern preserve made from the white inner rind, brined for three days then simmered in spiced sweet vinegar with cinnamon, cloves, and lemon. Crisp, sweet-tart, translucent.

Hasenpfeffer, the German-American marinated rabbit stew: rabbit pickled 2 days in spiced vinegar brine, browned in butter, braised in its own marinade, and finished with sour cream.

Old-fashioned pickled cherries packed in a simple vinegar brine with sugar and salt. No cooking required, just pack the jars and stash them in a cool spot.

Roman pickles brine fresh lettuce leaves with vinegar, dill, fennel, and salt for an ancient pickling method straight from Columella's first-century cookbook. Crisp, briny, and unexpectedly fresh.

Slow cooker rabbit in cream sauce with mushrooms, thyme, and a tangy sour cream finish. Brined overnight and braised low and slow until fork-tender, this old-school Crock-Pot recipe delivers rich, rustic flavor.

Old-fashioned crock dill pickles made with a simple hot brine of water, salt, vinegar, and black pepper. A Pennsylvania-style recipe that layers cucumbers with fresh dill stalks.

Maple-flavored smoked turkey brined overnight in salt, brown sugar, maple flavoring, white wine, and spices. A two-stage process: smoke first for flavor, then roast to finish cooking.

Texas-style dill pickles from Pflugerville with garlic, red pepper, fresh dill, and a simple vinegar brine. A classic water-bath canned pickle recipe that improves over two weeks.

Marynowane Pieczarki are Polish marinated mushrooms in a peppercorn and bay leaf vinegar brine. Tangy cocktail-hour bites that hold for weeks in the fridge. Pure old-world preserving.

Theada's beef jerky uses an old-school boil-and-bake method with a salt-vinegar brine, finished with Liquid Smoke and A-1 sauce. A pantry-friendly homemade jerky that skips the dehydrator.

Japanese cucumber pickles: thin-sliced cucumber and red onion in a sweet-tart rice vinegar brine with chili and cilantro. A quick no-cook refrigerator pickle, crisp and bright, ready to serve alongside grilled meats, chicken or fish.

Old-world fermented garlic pickles with cucumbers, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, and celery in a salt brine with mustard seed, peppercorns, and bay. Crunchy lacto-fermented crock pickles in 10 days.