[Lardman]

Can I? Looks like dill and pepper corns in it.

I was thinking of stuffing some eggs in there.

[arugula]

I've never re-used it for actual pickling but I often use it to add a bit of a more gentle vinegaryness to coleslaw etc. I would think, as long as you have kept it clean and only used a clean implement in it rather than a dirty one or fingers, it would be worth a try.

[Lardman]

as long as you have kept it clean and only used a clean implement in it rather than a dirty one or fingers

  

Ermmmm best not risk it then.

[arugula]

as long as you have kept it clean and only used a clean implement in it rather than a dirty one or fingers

  

Ermmmm best not risk it then.

Do you not notice the vinegar going foosty before the gherkins are finished in that case? 

[Lardman]

Do you not notice the vinegar going foosty before the gherkins are finished in that case? 

They're only 1lb jars - they don't last much more than a week. !

[arugula]

Fair enough, I buy the big jars.

[Dopey113]

I use it and my pickled onion vinegar, I have an old Sarsons bottle and I stick a few hot chillies in the bottle and top it up with the gherkin or p/onion vinegar, I have always done it... my mum did it and I got it from her, and I'm still alive, but bought shop vinegar (in my opinion) is stronger

[Mrs Bee]

Do you not notice the vinegar going foosty before the gherkins are finished in that case? 

What is foosty please?

[arugula]

What is foosty please?

Of Scottish/Glaswegian origin: mouldy, musty, rotten, bad, etc....

[Mrs Bee]

Thank you, I like that word. I shall add it to my lexicon

[arugula]

Its a great word. OH (English) uses it all the time now.  

[New shoot]

Couldn't you boil the vinegar to resterilise it    Might knacker the dill but the flavour of that would be in there anyway.

I regularly confuse people by using words picked up from OH - dreich has had an outing regularly this summer (damp dismal grey days) and I totally confused a visiting ops manager who was just making polite conversation and asked if I had enough bedding for the weekend, by saying I was up to my oaksters (armpits) in it  

[arugula]

oaksters

  Not very lady-like and one I haven't heard in a long time. 

[New shoot]

I never have claimed to be a laaaaaaydeeeeee    

[arugula]

  Fair enough then.