Pickling Vinegar

Hi All
Where do you get large containers of pickling vinegar, last year I picked some up at the greegrocers in Seaford East Sussex but this year he has not got any . I bought a 5 litre container of Kings spiced pickling vinegar and it was great I contacted the company that make it and unless I want a pallet load they can't help me and the nearest wholesaler to me is Smithfield Market in London.

The supermarkets do a sarsons white vinegar but that wont be the same and only comes in smaller jars.

Any ideas??

Thanks
Dave

 

Look in your local supermarket, the big containers are not beside the small ones in my one, but they are there.

 

I make my own vinegar from kombucha tea. If you leave it too long it goes to amazingly powerful and tasty vinegar - great for pickling.

Kombucha Tea

 

Have you got a local 'Cash And Carry'?

 

Found this if it's any use to you-now I know what to do with all the blinking beetroot I am growing.


Homemade Pickling Vinegar recipe
information
You can make up a good pickling vinegar with any or all of the following spices.

ingredients
1 seeded, dried chilli
1 tbsp black peppercorns
1 tbsp allspice berries
1 thick slice of fresh ginger root
1 bay leaf
1 blade of mace
1/2 oz (15 g) mustard seeds
cloves to taste
garlic to taste
4 cups (1 litre) 1 3/4 pint malt, red or white wine vinegar

method
1. Bruise the spices and tie them in a muslin bag.

2. Boil them in the vinegar for ten minutes.

3. Allow the vinegar to cool completely, with the bag still in it, before you use it for pickling,