Cleaning and washing vegetables. Cut cauliflower into coarse florets, carrots, zucchini and peppers into pieces. Halve mushrooms if necessary. Peel shallots. Wash the herbs and pluck them. Wash lemon hot, dab dry and cut into slices. Wash and halve garlic
Bring 2 l water to the boil, stir in the stock. Cook the vegetables in it one after the other: Cauliflower 6 minutes, carrots and shallots 5 minutes, zucchini, peppers and mushrooms 2 minutes each. Lift out the vegetables one by one. Let the stock boil down a little. Season to taste with vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar. Stir in the oil last
Place the vegetables, garlic, lemon slices, herbs and bay leaf in a colourful sequence in a preserving jar (approx. 4 l). Pour the stock over it, so that everything is covered. Let the vegetables stand for about 24 hours.