Recipes

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Illustrative finished Lunu dehi: light-brown whole salted limes with visible cuts, chilli and peppercorns in a little vinegar-lime juice, served in an open bowl.

Lunu dehi

Lunu dehi is Sri Lankan salted lime pickle. This version sun-dries cut, salt-stuffed ripe limes, then packs them with dried lime juice, chillies, spices and vinegar.

Sri Lanka · Traditional method
Fruit
Salted yellow lemon pieces beneath their own juice in a plain glass jar with a glass weight.

Preserved lemon

Preserved lemon is salted lemon packed in a jar until it releases its own juice. The sources give no fermentation duration, salt amount or measured endpoint.


Fruit
Illustrative reconstruction of pale pear liquamen based on Palladius; its exact historical appearance and vessel are unknown.

Liquamen ex piris (Palladius' pear liquamen)

A late-antique Roman recipe in which very ripe pears are crushed with salt, matured for three months and drained, giving a pale liquid called liquamen.

Roman world
· Fruit
Photograph of Umeboshi.

Umeboshi

Naturally acidic ume fruit salted and sometimes dried in Japan; the salt, the fruit’s own acidity and the loss of moisture supply the preservation, and the preparation is not always fermented.

Japan · Traditional method
· Fruit