pickling solution

April 12, 1947: The Harvard Pickle Works suffers another embarrassing security lapse when vandals break in at night and flood the pickle works with two pickling vats worth of pickling solution, doing thousands of dollars in damage.

The white part of the rind isn’t as fibrous as the green part, so all it needs is a cold pickling solution, which yields a crunchy, not-too-sweet pickle.

A sudden convulsion passed through Enoch’s body and the sheep heart started to beat, spraying out a fine mist of bloody pickling solution.

And the pickling solution for the veggies?

It will need to steep in an acid pickling solution for about three months, then be tanned and oiled before it’s ready for mounting.