Ideas for Pickle Brine Reuse?

Marinate an entire pork roast in pickle brine, then top it with mustard near the end of the cooking cycle, and you'll never go back.  (You'll also start buying more expensive pickles, to get better brine.)  The whole 'vinegar, sugar, salt, spices, dill' combo isn't that uncommon as a cooking technique in the first place - I just make my own 'pickle bring' sans pickles and use that.

Hi all,

I've seen it used as a late additive to replace salt+water in some sourdough bread recipes. I think it was in a book called "The Miller's Daughter" by Emma Zimmerman. I tried her "Rugbrød" recipe (it's the last recipe in the entire book) and frankly... it didn't go so well, but that wasn't the brine's fault.

I think the pickle brine would work well with a flour-based bread.

Anyway, just some food for thought! (pun intended)
Hamish.

I guess a marinade is pretty close to BBQ sauce but I love a SC low country honey vinegar BBQ sauce.