Dill pickle juice

[misswobble]

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 🥒.

I was thumbing through my Dan Leppard bread book the other day and there’s 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 🌪👀. So, I’m giving it a go later 😜

[AlMorr Half Marathon]

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. 😊

[roseabi Ultramarathon]

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! 😊😊😊

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to roseabi]

I now have an image of you trotting along with a big pickle in your hand instead of a water bottle ... 😀

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to linda9389]

Not far wrong 😄

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to roseabi]

In front of the cameras next time please 😀

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to linda9389]

🤣 OK

Actually I wished I had a pickle today, terrible abs cramp!!!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to roseabi]

😕 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 😪. Swollen. Hot. I'm munching painkillers and using out of date antiseptic 🙄. Cannot believe it! Why???? Grrrrr!!! Better not feel like this tomorrow.

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to linda9389]

OMG!!!! 😥 Feel better! xxx

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon]

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...... 🤔

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to Irishprincess]

He pops up on the Facebook group fairly regularly 😊

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Irishprincess]

It was lovely. It was mostly rye flour, which had to be toasted in the oven first. It wasn’t 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.

I’ll make both again 😋

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon in reply to misswobble]

Ooh that sounds lovely! I don’t eat much bread but when I do I love different flavours - might have to try that one. I take it you couldn’t taste the pickle juice?

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Irishprincess]

The dill pickle juice is fragrant It’s good vinegar, not at all tart. Some cheap vinegars make you screw your face up don’t 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.

[JonathanP 10 Miles]

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 !🥗

[misswobble Marathon in reply to JonathanP]

I just tip it into my salad straight from the jar, onto a goodly blob of homemade mayo, then stir 🥗🥄

I didn’t realise it was for cramp 🙂

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

Not the fan oven 🤣🤣🤣

(pickle juice is too vile for me to contemplate)

[misswobble Marathon in reply to linda9389]

I thought so til I’d tried it. Dill is lovely and it’s the main thing you taste. Decent vinegar in them too rather than the stuff which chokes one 🙂😃

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to misswobble]

But you eat peanut butter too ... I think your tastebuds are different to mine 🤣

[misswobble Marathon in reply to linda9389]

I used to hate pickles and PNB. 😁

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to misswobble]

Maybe I'll grow up one day too 🤪

[misswobble Marathon in reply to linda9389]

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

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to misswobble]

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 🤣🤣🤣

[Decker Ultramarathon]

I’m sadly the only one in my family that likes pickles. Never tried one on a run tho!

[Beachcomber66 Administrator Half Marathon]

Might help with social distancing too. 🙂

[Curlygurly2 Half Marathon]

There's a certain following for drinking pickle juice amongst the keto community...

[Curlygurly2 Half Marathon in reply to Curlygurly2]

Where is Rig anyway? Haven't seen anything from him in yonks....

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to Curlygurly2]

He doesn't use HU any more, but he can often be found on the Beyond C25K Facebook group:

facebook.com/groups/BeyondC25K

[Curlygurly2 Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

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

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Curlygurly2]

Oh, there must be something in it then.

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Focaccia bread could be made with gherkins instead of or with olives? Possible new flavour for a running energy gel? Great thread!

[misswobble Marathon in reply to Hidden]

Olives! Another food I detested but which I now eat 🙂

[Oldfloss Administrator]

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

[misswobble Marathon]

I need fresh dill too for the recipe too. Not being able to shop for it I’ve 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 🙂. It’s used to make gripe water doncha know 👍