You need 1 ingredient. The key ingredients include: ["1 cup water, piping hot from the tap", "1/2 cup rice wine vinegar", "6 tablespoons sugar", "2 1/2 teaspoons Kosher salt", "Fruit or vegetable, prepared as indicated", "Apples: 3 firm-fleshed apples, peeled, cored & sliced 1/4"" thick. Ready to eat after an hour and should be eaten the day they are made", "Melon: flesh of 1 cantaloupe or baby watermelon, cut into single bite pieces. Cool the brine before pouring over fruit. Ready in 1 hour - eat within 24.", "Carrots: 2 lbs baby carrots (as in infant or dwarfed, not the bagged grocery variety)", "Cauliflower: Florets from 1 head separated into bite size pieces", "Cherries: Pit & halve 2 pints cherries. Reserve the pits. Crack the pits and wrap in cheesecloth. Omitt the salt from the brine: combine the water, vinegar, sugar & pits and boil before pouring over cherries.", "Chiles: 4 cup Thai bird's eye chiles. Slice them after they've been pickled.", "Napa cabbage: Remove the green outer leaves & discard. Use the next couple of layers- 16 to 20 leaves - for this pickle. Make a triangular incision into each of the cabbage leaves to cut out the large, though white rib & discard it. Combine the water, vinegar, sugar and salt in a pickling container, stir until the sugar dissolves & gently pack the leaves into the container. Cover & refrigerate."].
