How long can one store lye cured olives? How long can one store salt cured?
• I purchased a 10 # box of manzanilla olives from you last year which was great but when I got them the olives were all slightly bruised. This only got more apparent during curing. Was the bruising caused by the shipping and is there any guaranty this won’t be the case this year? • I received the Sevillano olives from you two days ago. They were beautiful, thanks! I washed them, cut each one, and put them to soak in water, per the Partida recipe. I have changed the water each day. I have a few questions: 1.) Instead of striking each olive (Cracking the Olive vs Slicing) [because it seemed to bruise them, maybe I did it too hard], I sliced them with a knife. Will this work OK? 2.) I noticed that the Partida recipe consists of 10 days’ soaking in water [changed each day], then at least 4 days in brine. Will this be enough time to soften the olives? I ask because right now the olives are quite hard. I have tried home-cured olives that were ‘crunchy’ and I wondered if it were because they
