Origin of Jeruk ( Pickle )

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Pickling is one of the world's oldest and most important methods of preserving food. Although some sources cite the third and fourth millennia B.C. for the origin of pickles - a claim which appears impossible to verify - nothing is known for certain about exactly when and where they were first produced. It is definite however that this method of long-term food preservation with the help of salt and vinegar dates back far earlier than the tradition of preserving food with sugar. Having succeeded in preserving their foodstuffs for extended periods by salting them, human beings in time learned to let vegetables, fish and meat stand in salted liquids, thereby ensuring that they were also flavorful and high in quality as well as colorful and appetizing in appearance.