Pickled vegetables

[Manchesteral]

The most important ingredient in this process has been omitted here, do NOT pickle anything without sugar !!
only my opinion of course, based on 45 years of experience as a cook much of it as an executive chef!
Oh, and always use sea salt !

[luckyjim]

As. Chef of 30 years, I disagree. I have used many recipes for pickling without sugar, particularly with kosher and Polish pickling. Both countries rated for their delicious pickles, however, Chinese and Thai would always have sugar in them.

[Nimrod]

Originally i postd that i wanted sweet pickles.
One of our local uk pubs does them nicely sweet to my taste.
They were sweter than my attempt so i guess I didn't use enough sugar

[Manchesteral]

Recipe opinions will always vary according to individual taste, I have found with my recipes that sugar always gives a nice balance especially with bland base ingrediants such as carrots cauli etc. I have never pickled without sugar.