A sweet-sour accompaniment, but also something to stuff inside sandwiches, and particularly fine with thin slices of air-dried ham in a crisp-crusted baguette or adding texture to a soft, doughy wrap.
ll those laid-back summer lunches, the salads and cold cuts, smoked fish and simple tarts seem to cry out for a crisp, sharp accompaniment. The answer in this house is a tangle of bright young vegetables that has been left in a sweet and salty marinade. A pickle to bring out at will – I keep mine in the fridge – to complement whatever else is on the plate.
The vivid sourness such a pickle offers can be extended to the first of the homegrown fruits – the catch-it-if-you-can gooseberry season that is here and gone in a flash. Once the annual crumble has been made, gooseberries will be tossed into cakes and batter puddings and tucked into pickles.
Let the pickle cool, then chill in the refrigerator. It will keep for a few days in a sealed jar in the fridge.It’s gooseberry crumble and shortbread and flapjack all rolled into one and it’s just wonderful. It is also far less trouble than it looks. We ate some of the slices still warm with a jug of cream and kept others for later, to eat more as a luxurious, fruity, crumbly biscuit.
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