Can anyone recall Rig extolling the virtues of drinking pickle juice for health?
Anyway, as a result I started eating them and using the juice in my daily salad, along with the chopped gherkins π₯.
I was thumbing through my Dan Leppard bread book the other day and thereβs a recipe for pickle bread My nephew got me the rye flour, which has to be toasted in the oven first. Note to self: not the fan oven πͺπ. So, Iβm giving it a go later π
Years ago I used to be served pickles for my evening meal but if drinking pickle juice is healthy for you all the better, it should help you a lot with your running.
By all means give pickle bread a try, I am sure you will like it. π
Pickle juice is thought to help with muscle cramps, and there's an interesting hypothesis that the reason for this is to do with neural responses to the taste!
I took a dill pickle with me on the Beachy Head Marathon a couple of years ago, and ate it when I started to get abs cramp. Not sure if it helped because just after I ate it I had to walk up a steep hill, an action that also helps with my abs cramps. But the pickle was really really tasty at least! πππ
I now have an image of you trotting along with a big pickle in your hand instead of a water bottle ... π
Not far wrong π
In front of the cameras next time please π
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Actually I wished I had a pickle today, terrible abs cramp!!!
π hope you're feeling much better now - it sounded like a most uncomfortable run.
Today I stepped on a thorn at work. About an inch long. Straight thru the sole of my shoe and right into the underside of my big toe joint. It is close to agony πͺ. Swollen. Hot. I'm munching painkillers and using out of date antiseptic π. Cannot believe it! Why???? Grrrrr!!! Better not feel like this tomorrow.
Yes I remember this. Apparently very good for cramp. You must let us know how the pickle bread works out....
Wonder what Rig is up to these days...... π€
He pops up on the Facebook group fairly regularly π
It was lovely. It was mostly rye flour, which had to be toasted in the oven first. It wasnβt a soft, pillowy white but a lovely dark, chewy, tasty result. Worthy of a posh bread basket
I made rye lentils rolls too which were way tasty too.
Iβll make both again π
Ooh that sounds lovely! I donβt eat much bread but when I do I love different flavours - might have to try that one. I take it you couldnβt taste the pickle juice?
The dill pickle juice is fragrant Itβs good vinegar, not at all tart. Some cheap vinegars make you screw your face up donβt they Dill pickles and cornichons are in decent vinegar, even the inexpensive ones
You add fresh dill too. I used a recipe from Dan Leppard.
Interesting - I love pickles but have never tried this. As it's acidic I guess you could mix it with some nice olive oil and and make a salad dressing !π₯
I just tip it into my salad straight from the jar, onto a goodly blob of homemade mayo, then stir π₯π₯
I didnβt realise it was for cramp π
Not the fan oven π€£π€£π€£
(pickle juice is too vile for me to contemplate)
I thought so til Iβd tried it. Dill is lovely and itβs the main thing you taste. Decent vinegar in them too rather than the stuff which chokes one ππ
But you eat peanut butter too ... I think your tastebuds are different to mine π€£
I used to hate pickles and PNB. π
Maybe I'll grow up one day too π€ͺ
I hated avocado too. I eat it readily now. I think it can only be because my eating habits changed as I lost weight and stopped eating as much sweet stuff and alcohol
I hated avocado until my 30's, but love it now. However, I'm still firmly stuck in the 'sweet stuff and alcohol phase of life'. Disciplined running and riding is helping me maintain my weight without daily calorie counting. Perhaps if I add a personal threat to have to eat PB and dill pickle juice if I cross the 'red line', then I'll never need to diet again π€£π€£π€£
Iβm sadly the only one in my family that likes pickles. Never tried one on a run tho!
Might help with social distancing too. π
There's a certain following for drinking pickle juice amongst the keto community...
Where is Rig anyway? Haven't seen anything from him in yonks....
He doesn't use HU any more, but he can often be found on the Beyond C25K Facebook group:
facebook.com/groups/BeyondC25K
Thank you Roseabi, I was just thinking of this group yesterday, I used to be in it, but must have left...very useful thank you xx
Oh, there must be something in it then.
Focaccia bread could be made with gherkins instead of or with olives? Possible new flavour for a running energy gel? Great thread!
Olives! Another food I detested but which I now eat π
Pickle bread sounds delicious, I have done onion bread... and a great beer bread too!
Not cure about the juice but others seem to know about it...I do love the taste of it when having dill pickle though, so maybe?
Let us know how the bread is please
I need fresh dill too for the recipe too. Not being able to shop for it Iβve sown some at home. There might be some on the weedy allotment. I can have a look next week when I met freeeeeeeeee I sowed some on my plot Years back and you only ever need do it once π. Itβs used to make gripe water doncha know π
Report on Trailwind! ππ
PB for 5k, 3k, 2k, 1.5k, 1k, 12 mins ... at last the 10 min per mile barrier has been breached!
We got locked down, but I can run again, even though it isn't very far!