House Pickling Liquor

Name: House Pickling Liquor
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: about 16¾ cups (4000 ml)
Cuisine: African
Ingredients: 4½ cups (1100 ml) Cider Vinegar; 2¾ cups (634 ml) Honey; 8¼ cups (2000 ml) Water; 5 Bay Leaf; about 3 Tbsp (25 g) Pepper; 10 g Nutmeg; 10 g Grains of Seli; about 5 chiles (10 g) Dried Chile; 10 g Lavender

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Jeremy Chan recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Jeremy Chan.

CONDIMENT · QUICK-PICKLING PLANTAIN OR VEGETABLES

In the published recipe, this is the condiment for pickled plantain. The same recipe pairs it with Smoked Scotch-Bonnet Emulsion, the scotch bonnet mayo.

Jeremy Chan's honey-lavender pickling liquor.

On the jar

HOUSE

Method: simmer
Yield: about 16¾ cups
Ingredients: 9
Jar batch: 0.1× recipe

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Ratio

WATER 2000 mlHONEY 634 ml

Ingredients

Cider Vinegar4½ cups (1100 ml)
Honey2¾ cups (634 ml)
Water8¼ cups (2000 ml)
Bay Leaf5
Pepperabout 3 Tbsp (25 g)
Nutmeg10 g
Grains of Seli10 g
Dried Chileabout 5 chiles (10 g)
Lavender10 g

Method

Pour to the lines in order (bottom → top): WATER, HONEY.
Season to finish: CIDER VINEGAR (to taste), BAY LEAF (½ leaf), PEPPER (about 1 tsp), NUTMEG (about ½ tsp), GRAINS OF SELI (about ½ tsp), DRIED CHILE (½ chile).
Cap the jar and shake until combined.
Pour into a cold pan and bring to a gentle simmer. The jar stays off the stove. Cool leftovers briefly before they go back in the glass, then refrigerate promptly.

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Provenance

Jeremy Chan. West African / British contemporary. Cited awards include: Michelin 2* (Ikoyi, London); World's 50 Best #15 (2025).

Originally published as House Pickling Liquor (Honey–Lavender–Selim).

Adapted from a Jeremy Chan recipe (Jeremy Chan / Restaurant Online (Ikoyi plantain masterclass)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

Yes, with one pan. Its liquids pour to the printed fill-lines and shake cold; the mix then goes into a pan to simmer. The jar itself never touches heat.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). A PantryFlex jar makes a 0.1× batch of it. The jar's printed lines, counts, and QR guide are already scaled to match, so follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Jeremy Chan / Restaurant Online (Ikoyi plantain masterclass) (published as “House Pickling Liquor (Honey–Lavender–Selim)”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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