Sweet lime pickle is what happens when someone decides the sourness needs company. Lime, sugar or jaggery, and warm spice, cooked until the rind turns translucent.

It is the pickle for people who say they do not like pickle.

Serve it with paratha, with a plain dal, alongside curd rice, or on a cheese board where it does the same job as a fruit chutney with a good deal more going on underneath.

In the pickles aisle at Curry Corner in North Melbourne.