Most do not even know what they are losing by pouring cucumber pickle left in the jar into the sink or toilet. This salty liquid has many unique properties, it can improve health, get rid of various household problems.
The zealous housewives never throw out the cucumber pickle left over after a festive feast or an everyday dinner. They know that this tasty and healthy liquid can be reused for culinary, wellness and household purposes. Moreover, both the pickle from pickled cucumbers and the pickle from pickled cucumbers, containing vinegar, are beneficial. The second is even preferable, since it is not just a concentrated saline solution, but a healthy and aromatic drink with various additives.
Health benefits of pickle
There are many situations where the cucumber liquid left over in the pickle jar is beneficial to your health. And the most famous is its use as an invigorating drink after a heavy morning hangover. Almost everyone knows this from childhood, and many have personally observed the use of marinade directly from the jar by their fathers, friends and drinking companions. But not everyone knows that you can drink pickle from cucumbers in other cases.
So, 7 reasons not to pour, but to drink the marinade, or ways to use it with health benefits.
- To get rid of a hangover. Salted cucumber pickle helps to restore the water-salt balance in case of dehydration and intoxication of the body after drinking strong alcohol, improves well-being by replenishing the amount of sodium and minerals.
- After hard training. With increased sweating, athletes are flushed out of the body of electrolytes and minerals. Brine, on the other hand, returns the lost fluid and substances useful for the body, restoring strength faster. It is especially useful in combination with coconut water, this mixture is used by professionals to get rid of cramps after long-term exhausting exercises.
- During your period. It is no secret that many girls, women, PMS and critical days are accompanied by pain, spasms. In addition, the body loses minerals during bleeding. The brine left over from pickled cucumbers will also help get rid of unpleasant sensations.
- To eliminate heartburn. During a feast with fatty and spicy dishes, it is worth drinking a glass of clear liquid, drinking junk food in small sips. This will help prevent heartburn and unpleasant cramps.
- To get rid of hiccups. To stop hiccuping, you just need to drink a cup of brine at a time - it will help one hundred percent. It's all about the unique composition of the vinegar pickle from cucumbers.
- Before starting a detox diet. Having made a strong-willed decision to lose weight by detox, you should first drink a little cucumber pickle during the day. It will speed up the metabolism due to the acidic environment, give more energy to the body.
- To strengthen the immune system. The marinade liquid contains a large amount of antioxidants, ascorbic acid, vitamin E. These substances can strengthen the body's defense against various colds and immune diseases.
These are not all the healing properties of pickle, if you wish, you can dig up a whole mountain of folk recipes with a unique cucumber pickle based on vinegar.
Cooking use
A salty and healthy product left in the jar after eaten cucumbers is often used in cooking, adding in the preparation and baking of desserts, meat, pickling. Here are 7 easy ways to reapply vinegar marinade.
- Improving the taste of the side dish. By adding a little brine to mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes or rice during cooking, you no longer need to salt the water. And the side dish will turn out to be tastier, more aromatic, with an unusual pleasant aftertaste. You can also use a little liquid mixed with olive oil as a dressing for vegetable, meat salad.
- Marinade for fresh vegetables. Having placed peeled small carrots, rings of onions or fresh cucumbers, slices of pepper in a jar with the remaining transparent brine, you can re-marinate the products by removing the container in the refrigerator for two days.
- Making cocktails. A little salty liquid can be poured into cocktails with vodka, whiskey according to a recipe, complementing them with pickled olives. For 50 ml of whiskey or vodka, 35 ml of aromatic marinade is enough.
- When baking bread and biscuits. Pouring a glass of brine into the dough while kneading instead of milk or water, you can bake aromatic rye bread smelling of dill and spices. The dough for cookies in brine is very simple to prepare, as a result, you get a dessert with a crispy crust, soft inside, our mothers and grandmothers loved it very much.
- Marinade for meat. If you soak pieces of pork or chicken for barbecue in advance in cucumber brine, the meat will become soft, tender in taste.
- When frying fish. Brine can be sprinkled on chunks of fish before frying, replacing them with fresh lemon juice if there is no lemon at home. It is recommended to pour a little salty liquid into the water from a jar and when cooking in a frying pan, saucepan.
- For making homemade mustard. Once you choose your favorite recipe from a variety of options, it's easy to add a little brine to the mustard powder to get an unusual flavor in the end.
Salted vinegar brine can be successfully added to fish, meat, vegetable dishes, even to dough, without fear of ruining your appetizer or baked goods. The main thing is to experiment wisely.
The use of cucumber marinade in cosmetology and in everyday life
In addition to health and culinary purposes, brine water is also used in home cosmetology and in everyday life. For those who want to refresh their skin or prevent the appearance of wrinkles, the following 3 recipes will help.
- Whitening and cleansing the skin. To refresh the complexion, tone the skin and lighten it, freeze the brine in ordinary ice cube trays, then wipe your nose, cheeks, and forehead with an ice cube in the morning before going to bed. This remedy will even help get rid of acne and premature wrinkles.
- Get rid of wrinkles. To maintain the turgor of the skin on the hands and feet, baths with marinade will help. They also help to eliminate cracks, corns on the heels.
- Elimination of burn stains. Moistening a cotton pad with brine and lubricating the burn, you can get rid of pain, and heal the affected skin area faster. However, this must be done carefully.
For domestic purposes, the water remaining in the pickled cucumber jar is used in three ways.
- For washing pots, grates. The brine perfectly cleans copper pots, grill grates, skewers, oven trays from scale, burnt food and dirt. You just need to put a salty "compound" on the surface, wait a little, wipe it off with a sponge.
- For watering indoor plants. The brine contains the potassium necessary for flower crops, helps them grow better and bloom more luxuriantly.
- To acidify the soil. By periodically watering the ground under garden hydrangeas, rhododendrons with marinade, you can easily acidify the soil, which will affect the density and duration of flowering of ornamental shrubs.
Many people still drink brine with a hangover, unaware of the other beneficial properties of this fragrant and tasty liquid. Others successfully use the marinade for their own purposes, delighting households with delicious dishes and recipes of traditional medicine that are not harmful to health.
