Seasoned green olives - country living

15 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 pounds Fresh green olives
2 cups Water
2 tablespoons Uniodized or pickling salt
1 cup White-wine vinegar
1 Lemon, halved, seeded, and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 tablespoon Dried or 3 T chopped fresh oregano
3 Cloves garlic, halved
¼ cup Olive oil

Directions

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 ¼ C water to keep the olives immersed. Seal jar; refrigerate 3 weeks, changing water in jar every day.

2. After 3 weeks, sample an olive-it should be only slightly bitter.

Continue to soak olives in water if still very bitter.

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.

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.

Country Living/Sept/94 Scanned & fixed by Di Pahl & <gg> Submitted By DIANE PAHL On 10-02-94

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