How to cure your own olives

Pick your ripe olives from the tree.

Collect all your ingredients.

Make the brine by adding 100ml salt to 1L of water.

Pore the brine into a container.

Your olives will cure for 6 weeks. Turn or shake your olives every day. Rinse your olives 1 x week and add new brine. After 6 weeks, taste for bitterness.

Chop rosemary fine. (Optional)

Chop garlic fine. (Optional)

Add to olives.

Enjoy!