Pickling Lime

Pickling Lime Also Known As: Calcium Hydroxide, Hydrated Lime, Builders' Lime, Slack Lime, Cal Origin: USA Ingredients: Calcium Hydroxide Taste and Aroma: Flavorless; Pickling Lime is used for its pickling and preservative properties. Uses:Pickling Lime makes crisp pickles out of cucumbers, watermelon rinds, green tomatoes and other vegetables. It is also traditionally used to make Chinese century eggs, corn tortilla chips and the Indian crispbread papadum. Substitutes: Pickling Spice, Canning and Pickling Salt, Alum Powder and Glucono Delta Lactone. Fun Fact: According to Celtic lore, certain ancient Celtic tribes used Pickling Lime as hair dye.