I need a really pickly pickle recipe

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Are you an experienced pickler?

Ds loves pickles. He always complains that supermarket pickles are not pickly enough. Too sweet and mild.

Any advice or recipes for making super-pickly pickles?

You need to play around with the balance of sugar, salt, vinegar and water in the pickling liquid as well as adding mustard and/or coriander seeds and/or dried chilies and using fewer sweet spices.

Yes, I agree

I'm not experienced but found the River Cottage Preserves Handbook No. 2 useful and very pretty

The piccalilli nearly blew my socks off

I use the middle recipe of these. It's beautiful. You can play around with your veg combination.

Thank you! I'll have a go.

My mouth is watering now

Yum, I’d say just put no sugar in or look for supermarket ones with no vinegar. The higher the sugar the less pickly they taste imo. I saw a recipe recently for pickled radishes to add to sandwiches that was basically just radishes and apple Cider vinegar and maybe a few peppercorns that sounded amazing.