Fermentation and pickling

[Blown2CV]

Turn7 said:

Blown2CV said:

anyone making Kefir?

Not yet, but keep toying with it, that and Kombucha too

I’ve been making it for 10 days or so. Heartburn has dropped I think. Interested to know anyone else’s experiences. FYI it tastes like milk mixed with beer foam and a with touch of sharpness. Strange indeed!

[Turn7]

Blown2CV said:

Turn7 said:

Blown2CV said:

anyone making Kefir?

Not yet, but keep toying with it, that and Kombucha too

I’ve been making it for 10 days or so. Heartburn has dropped I think. Interested to know anyone else’s experiences. FYI it tastes like milk mixed with beer foam and a with touch of sharpness. Strange indeed!

I started taking a Kefir smoothie with apple cider vinegar due to bad reflux, does make a difference.

[Jambo85]

Funny how the change in weather signalling the coming of winter has our inner cavemen thinking about these things. I knocked up a batch of sauerkraut last night, so bloody easy I should do it all the time.

I have a couple of kohlrabi in the fridge which I'm not sure what to do with, wondering about giving them the same treatment.

[4x4Tyke]

A couple of weekends ago I went to our community orchard in Hull and came away with 11Kg of apples and pears and a few kilo each of cabbages and onions from the allotments next door.

I ended up making so much hot spicy pickle, apple sauce and pickled red cabbage, I ran out of jars, had to get more and ran out again. I still have about 4Kg of apples left.

Along the way I also had a go at homemade ketchup from passata, which I'd never tried before and was really chuffed with it, well worth a try, my nieces and nephews love it and even said it's 'better than shop bought rubbish' despite using a low sugar receipt because of my type 2 diabetes.

[Cotty]

I was at the Ideal Home Show at Olympia on Friday and saw a stall selling Kimchi so picked up a couple of things.
Here is thier site if anyone is interested https://www.kimchiwitheverything.com/
I just got the Quite Hot as the first taste I tried of the Very Hot nearly took my head off, but might give it another go.

Edited by Cotty on Sunday 13th March 14:39

Edited by Cotty on Sunday 13th March 15:04

[Mobile Chicane]

Cotty said:

I was at the Ideal Home Show at Olympia on Friday and saw a stall selling Kimchi so picked up a couple of things.
Here is thier site if anyone is interested https://www.kimchiwitheverything.com/
I just got the Quite Hot as the first taste I tried of the Very Hot nearly took my head off, but might give it another go.

Edited by Cotty on Sunday 13th March 14:39

Edited by Cotty on Sunday 13th March 15:04

I hope you'll get making your own - it really is simple to do.

I have that Lakeland jar. The 'airlock' is just to release the gasses which form. (I did wonder what the smell was in the living room where I've got it 'stewing'.)

[NMNeil]

jmorgan said:

Missing my copy of the cook book. Must have loaned it out, it is by Pat Chapman. Forgetting the title, will have to search it out. I have not made any for a while as it needs time to prep. A two day affair I think. The author claimed to have gone back to India to research the recipes and presented them as such. It was a cracking pickle when it came out ready.

However sometime ago there was a thread here and "Bob planner"(edited)?? put up a recipe for a chilly pickle. Have a copy on a printout. Hope he doesn't mind, I am not claiming credit for this but it is delicious, poor scan from phone.

Scanned Documents by Jeff, on Flickr

Edited by jmorgan on Wednesday 16th May 09:12

I had no idea Mr. Chapman was so prolific a writer
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Pat+Chapman

[Mobile Chicane]

Genius idea to weight down whatever you are fermenting in the jar: a plastic freezer bag with water in it.