Update: The truth about pickled limes

Okay, so let me fess up to something.  I haven't been completely ignoring this blog, I promise.  I had a recipe in the works-- the famous pickled limes from Little Women.  Yes, those same pickled limes that were Amy's downfall.  I couldn''t find a specific pickled lime recipe anywhere, so i just sort of did a bit of this and a dash of that and modified some other pickled fruit recipes I found.

This was not a good idea.

I tasted my first lime and my face nearly turned inside out.  It wasn't sour.  That wasn't the problem.  It was bitter. I mean Miss Havisham-bitter.  The pickling liquid was actually rather delicious (a mix of rice vinegar, sugar, ginger, and whole cloves), but the limes themselves were very... angry.  They would probably work if I removed the peels and then pickled them, but I am, at the moment, rather dispirited.  CURSE YOU, PICKLED LIMES!

Now let's leave that behind us and move on to happier things.  Like a review!