Bread and Butter Granita

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This savory granita is made from a brine for breadstuff and food pickles. Its vinegar and spice are cleanable foils for a mignonette-like topping for oysters connected the fractional ammunition oregon sliced caller tomatoes drizzled with olive oil.

Plastic nutrient retention containers with lids enactment good for freezing granitas; you tin besides usage nonreactive metallic containers specified arsenic shallow baking pans. Choose the close size: You don’t privation the liquid to beryllium much than 1 inch deep, oregon the granita volition instrumentality overmuch longer to freeze.

Granita is astatine its champion the time you marque it, but it tin beryllium made up to a week successful advance. This needs astatine slightest 3 hours' freezing time. Fluff/scrape with a fork earlier serving.

From nutrient writer and erstwhile cook and David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8 (makes astir 2 cups)

  • 1 1/2 cups distilled achromatic vinegar
  • 6 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 tablespoonful mustard seed
  • 1 tablespoonful celery seed
  • 1 dried bay leaf
  • 1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon
  • 1/2 spoon full cloves
  • 1 spoon crushed turmeric
  • 1/4 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1/4 reddish onion, coarsely chopped
  • 1/4 spoon kosher salt

From nutrient writer and erstwhile cook and David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published July 15, 2014

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Updated March 15, 2026

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