Homemade Pickled Pork
 
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups water
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup distilled white vinegar
  • 3 tablespoons pickling spice
  • 2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 2 teaspoons hot sauce
  • 1½ pounds pork shoulder, trimmed and cut into 1-inch-thick strips
Instructions
  1. In a medium nonreactive saucepan, bring 1½ cups water, sugar, vinegar, pickling spice, salt, and hot sauce to a boil over medium-high heat. Remove from heat; stir until sugar is dissolved. Let cool completely.
  2. Add pork to vinegar mixture. Cover and refrigerate for at least 24 hours. Remove pork from pan, discarding vinegar mixture. Pat pork dry with paper towels; chop pork.
Recipe by Taste of the South at https://tasteofthesouthmagazine.com/pickled-pork-tacos/