Pickled fruit
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Pickled fruit refers to fruit that has been pickled. Pickling is the process of food preservation by either anaerobic fermentation in brine or immersion in vinegar. Many types of fruit are pickled. Some examples include peaches, apples, crabapples, pears, plums, grapes, currants, tomatoes and olives. Vinegar may also be prepared from fruit, such as apple cider vinegar.
For thousands of years in many parts of the world, pickles have been used as the main method to preserve fruits and other foods. There is evidence that thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and China people pickled different foods for preservation. Mayan culture in America used tobacco to preserve food, specifically to make pickled peppers. In ancient times the different cultures used salt that was found naturally and water to make the brine, which they used to pickle foods that cannot be eaten naturally, such as olives and some grains.{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Food and Culture Vol. 3|last=Derven|first=Daphne|publisher=Charles Scribner%27s Sons.|year=2003|pages=152}}
Peaches
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Pickled peaches may be prepared from medium-sized, non-melting clingstone peaches that are small-seeded. In the United States prior to around 1960, some were prepared from small, unripe freestone peaches. Flavour may be added to the pickle using 'sweet spices', such as cinnamon, cloves and allspice,{{cite web |last1=Shulman |first1=Martha Rose |title=Pickled Peaches With Sweet Spices Recipe |url=https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016824-pickled-peaches-with-sweet-spices |website=NYT Cooking |publisher=New York Times |access-date=3 August 2022}} or savoury pickling spices, such as peppercorns and coriander.{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Delia |title=Preserved Pickled Peaches |url=https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/preserves/preserved-pickled-peaches |website=Delia Online |access-date=3 August 2022 |language=en |date=9 November 2015}} Pickled peaches may be used to accompany meats and in salads, and also have other uses.
Pears
Grapes
To pickle grapes it is necessary to use white wine vinegar, water, kosher salt, sugar, cloves garlic, rosemary and dried chili flakes. Garlic, chili flakes and some other species make grapes a unique flavor.{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/refrigerator-pickles-summer-fruit-all-sealed-up-1470242450|title=Refrigerator Pickles: Summer Fruit, All Sealed Up|last=Stabiner|first=Karen|date=August 3, 2016|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=October 6, 2019}}
Cantaloupe
The cantaloupe is a summer season fruit, which can be pickled and refrigerated to be able to eat it during the rest of the year. The cantaloupe can be pickled using champagne vinegar, hot water, granulated sugar, ice, mustard seed, celery seed, Aleppo pepper and cinnamon stick.
List of pickled fruits
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- Apple
- Crab apple
- Apricot
- Umeboshi
- Barberry
- Blackberry
- Blueberry
- Caper
- Cherry
- Citrus peel
- Currant
- Dates
- Damson
- Fig
- Grape
- Mango pickle
- Aavakaaya
- Nata de coco – fermented coconut juice
- Nata de pina – fermented pineapple juice
- Olives
- Orange
- Peach
- Nectarine
- Pear
- Peppadew
- Pickled lime
- Pickled pepper
- Plum
- Preserved lemon
- Prunes
- Strawberry
- Tomato
- Watermelon may be pickled, as well as watermelon rind.
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File:MoroccanlemonS.jpg|Pickled lemons
File:Wattermelon.jpg|Pickled watermelon.
File:Buai khem.jpg|Buai khem is Thai for "salted (Chinese) plums". They are prepared from Prunus mume (also known as "Chinese Plum" or "Japanese Apricot"), and are pickled, dried, and salted.
File:Cherrypeppers.jpg|Pickled pimientos
File:Olives being pickled.jpg|Olives being pickled
File:Pickled Mango.png|Pickled mango
File:Pickled peppers.jpg|Jarred pickled peppers
File:Pickled Tomatoes6.jpg|Pickled tomatoes
File:Pickled fruits and veggies.jpg|Pickled apple along with other vegetables.
By country
In Malaysia, some fruits are pickled when they are unripe, such as belimbing, kedondong, chermai, lime, pineapple, papaya, mango and nutmeg.
In Mexico, there are two phrases to describe a pickle: the term "escabechar" or "encurtir" is used when food is pickled by vinegar; whereas it is called "escabeche" or "salmuera" when salt is the main pickling agent.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mexconnect.com/articles/2419-preserving-the-fall-harvest-mexican-pickles-and-vinaigrettes|title=Preserving the Fall harvest:Mexican pickles and vinaigrettes.|last=Hursh Graber|first=Karen|date=October 1, 2006|website=Mexconnect|access-date=September 29, 2019}}
The word "vinegar" is of French origin (Vin - Aigre), comprising "vino-agrio" in Spanish and literally "wine-sour" in English. At its origin, vinegar was obtained as the result from the fermentation of wine which was sour.
In Mexico, vinegar is obtained in large part from the fermentation of fruits such as pineapple and apple; people use this naturally sourced vinegar to pickle fruits and vegetables in the home. With many various peppers, the pickle pepper is very popular in Mexico — the pepper being one of the main products made both at home and by the pickling industry. Some states in Mexico such as Oaxaca and Puebla use homemade fermented pineapple-vinegar or sour brine to pickle fruits such as mangoes, membrillos and some cactus — the resulting pickles are then used as ingredients in traditional cooking.
See also
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- {{annotated link|Chutney}}
- {{annotated link|List of condiments}}
- {{annotated link|List of fruit dishes}}
- {{annotated link|List of Indian pickles}}
- {{annotated link|List of pickled foods}}
- {{annotated link|Peter Piper}}
- {{annotated link|Pickles in India and Pakistan}}
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