Other Recipes/2021.08
Pumpkin, Summer Vegetable and Fig Salad with Lacto-Plum Dressing
The vinegar from lacto-fermented plums, turned into a dressing for a late-summer salad.
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Other Recipes/2021.08
Sourdough Crackers with a Gentle Tang
Crisp, salty, faintly sour. The easiest thing to make with a sourdough starter.
Other Recipes/2021.07
Baking Campagne with Paradise Yeast
A jar of fermented apple juice, passed hand to hand since 2007, used to raise a loaf.
Other Recipes/2021.07
Lacto-Fermented Plums
Salted plums left to ferment. The liquid that comes out of them is the real prize.
Other Recipes/2020.11
How to Make Dried Persimmons
Peeled, hung, and left to the cold air. An old method that still works.
Other Recipes/2020.11
Bread with Wild Kiwi Yeast (A Failure)
Raising a leaven from kiwi fruit. It did not work, and here is why.
Other Recipes/2020.11
Making Bacon in a Wok
You do not need a smoker. A wok, some chips, and a lid will do.
Other Recipes/2020.11
Kogyoku Apple Jam
A tart Japanese apple that holds its shape and its acidity. Made into jam.
Other Recipes/2020.06
Spiced Red Cabbage Sauerkraut
Red cabbage salted, spiced and left alone. Nothing else to it.
Other Recipes/2020.06
How to Brew Good Iced Coffee
Flash-chilled over ice, so the aroma survives. The method I use all summer.
Other Recipes/2020.05
Homemade Doubanjiang with Broad Beans
Broad beans, chilli and koji, fermented into a chilli bean paste. Off-topic, but worth it.
Other Recipes/2020.05
Sauerkraut with Onion
Onion added to the ferment, and what it does to the flavour.
Other Recipes/2020.04
How to Make Sauerkraut at Home
Cabbage and salt, and time. Lacto-fermented sauerkraut that goes with almost anything.
Other Recipes/2020.04
Homemade Oil-Packed Sardines
Cheap sardines, salt, oil and low heat. Far better than the tinned kind.
Other Recipes/2020.04
Semi-Dried Tomatoes in Olive Oil
Tomatoes dried just enough to concentrate them, then kept under oil.
Other Recipes/2020.04
How to Make Proper Bacon at Home
Curing, smoking and slicing your own bacon, without special equipment.