Sam spent the better part of fifteen years turning a farmers market pickle booth into seven national food awards. This is what the brine became once it stopped being a by-product.
Fresh chopped dill and garlic folded into that award-winning brine, with a spice blend he has never published. It carries salt and acid at the same time, which is why it works as a dip, a dressing and a marinade without anything added to it.
Made by hand in Virginia. 9.5 oz.
Three things in one bottle: a dip, a dressing and a marinade. It is the award-winning pickle brine with fresh chopped dill and garlic, so it brings salt and acid at the same time and needs almost nothing else.
As a dressing, straight over a raw vegetable salad, no oil needed
On deviled eggs, in place of the mustard and vinegar
As an overnight marinade for chicken or pork, where the brine does the tenderising
As a dip for fries, fried vegetables or anything crisp
Thinned with a spoonful of water into a slaw dressing
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Sam's Pickle House Dill Pickle Sauce, 9.5 oz
$14.00
The Brand
Sam's Pickle House
Sam trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Austin and started out with a booth at a farmers market selling cold pickles. That ran for the better part of fifteen years and picked up seven national food awards, along with a brick-and-mortar in 2018 called The Pickle House, which the pandemic closed.
What carried on was the brine. Sam went back to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where he led the culinary program at Amherst County High School, and kept making the sauces by hand with a small team.
Both the Dill Pickle Sauce and the Pickle Hot Sauce are built on that award-winning brine, with fresh chopped dill, garlic and a spice blend he has never published.
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