Pickles taste pretty dank next to a Jewish deli sandwich, but you haven’t lived until you’ve taken a pickleback shot: a shot of whiskey chased by straight up pickle juice. All that salt and flavor mask the burn of the whiskey, and pickle juice is a damn good hangover cure.
So with my always-alcoholic mind, I thought it’d be dope to pickle some random veggies and use that innovative pickle juice as a chaser with various types of hard liquor. But I couldn’t do this alone. I called my girl Eden Grinshpan — TV personality, blogger, and foodstagram star — to help me out with this one.
It turned out to be a turned up time, to say the least, and the dranks turned out real good. I pickled ’em using my grandma’s method, but if you want to pickle like a Le Cordon Bleu graduate (aka Eden’s way), check out her method on her blog. (Look how legit hers looks… accawkward.)
Photo courtesy of edeneats.com
Pineapple & Ginger + Rum
Ingredients
Instructions
Fill up your mason jar halfway with some H2O.
Drop in an uncooked egg and let it sink. Add in enough salt until it floats. Then take that egg out, duh.
#SpoonTip: This will make it real salty. If you plan to pickle these for more than 24 hours, don’t bother with the egg trick and shoot for 1-2 tablespoons of salt.
Cut up some pineapple and toss it in there.
Skin your ginger. Chop it up. Throw it in.
Throw in garlic if you’d like. Eden doesn’t recommend it, but whateva, yolo.
#SpoonTip: Make sure the water covers all the ingredients.
Jar that puppy up and let it sit overnight.
#SpoonTip: To help this ish pickle faster, put it next to a window where there’s plenty of sunlight.
Strain out some of the pickle juice. Throw back a shot of rum and chase with dat pickled drank.
#SpoonTip: It might smell like hot fart, but it doesn’t taste like it.
Red Pepper & Jalapeo + Tequila
Ingredients
Instructions
Same drill as above. Before jarring, pour in some peppercorns.
#SpoonTip: Cut the pepper like Eden. She’s a pro.
24 hours later, take a shot of tequila and chase with this spicy, garlicky sip of Mexico.
Apples + Fireball
Ingredients
Instructions
You know what to do.
After a 24-hour dance break, take a shot of Fireball and wash it down with some pickled apple juice. That don’t taste like your recess days, tho.
Coleslaw + Tomato Juice & Vodka
Ingredients
Instructions
Throw all of your ingredients into a jar like you have 3x already.
#SpoonTip: Pickled coleslaw ≠ kimchi.
Strain some of that juice into a cup and add some tomato juice. Take a shot of vodka and wash it down with this deconstructed coleslaw Bloody Mary.
Lemon + Gin
Ingredients
Instructions
Like, you get it by now.
Chase a shot of gin with this lemon chili pickle juice. Hell. Yes.