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Salt brine ferment/pickle something - PEP BB food.sand.salt

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I have made sauerkraut and other ferments for several years now. The exciting thing about this post is: these are cabbages  from my own garden! yay!! It took 4 tiny cabbages to fill these jars, but I got 2 quarts of sauerkraut out of the deal :) I don't use a recipe, just add a bit of the last batch to this one as I massage it. I add about a tablespoon of salt per jar as I fill them. Then they ferment on the counter for about 3 days. I don't have any fancy equipment, so I burp the jars every day. Then they go in the fridge. They're done!
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cabbage
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chopping and massaging
chopping and massaging
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filled jars
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3 days later, labels going on
3 days later, labels going on

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Salt brined fermented veggies.

A friend of mine reminded me of some spicy carrots we used to eat at our favorite Mexican restaurant.  She was doing this salt ferment and I decided to try it.  

Put chopped veggies in jars.  Add the brine to cover.  Brine is 1 tablespoon non iodized salt to every 1 cup water.  I used non chlorinated water to help the fermentation process.  Poured over the veggies, cover with cloth.  Allow to do its thing.  Check for floaters every couple of days, remove any growth on top.  
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Jalapeño on the bottom for slickness, cauliflower topped with carrots.
Jalapeño on the bottom for slickness, cauliflower topped with carrots.
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Complete quart
Complete quart
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Note: Unfortunately this badge requires that no food come in contact with plastic and it appears that your cuttingboard is plastic. Please try again because your pickles look amazing!

 
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These peppers were picked immediately before the first freezing nights of this season. Already had plenty of them stored in the freezer & plenty dehydrated. Gave away as many as folks wanted. Decided to ferment the remainder to make hot sauce with. These pics show 1 quart of bell peppers, 8 pints of cajun bell along with a few salsa & poblano peppers, plus 1 pint of onion with garlic & pepper. Measured salt & filled each jar with water to the very tippy top of the tippy top. Will top it off daily or as needed. Don't have a good fermenting weight & don't want any fuzzies growing in the future hot sauce. After fermentation it will be mixed with some apple cider vinegar for the acidity.

The brine "recipe" was 1 tablespoon of salt for the quart. Half tablespoon salt for the pints. The hot sauce recipe will be add all this together after fermentation & blend it up with some apple cider vinegar. The hot peppers are about 90% cajun bells & about 10% salsa & poblano peppers. Might not add all the bell peppers if it will make it too mild. Might need more garlic & onions. Never made hot sauce before so I kept the ingredients separated for now.
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I made some kind of kimchi! It is a new recipe I am trying out and I'm excited! The recipe is approximative.

Vegetables
1 kg of green cabbage
700g of daikons (multicolored)
300g of carrots

Paste
oignons
ginger
chili pepper
garlic
apple
algae

1 - Let the vegetables soak overnight in water with 3% of the total mass in salt
2- Prepare the paste (add 3% of the paste mass in salt)
3- Rinse the vegetables slightly and dispose of the water
4- Mix the vegetables with the paste
5- Put everyting in a jar and if needed cover with a 3% salt solution




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The soaked vegetables
The soaked vegetables
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The paste in the making
The paste in the making
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The final jars!
The final jars!

Lyam

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First-time sauerkraut making in our family.

Willing to taste it in a few days.

My daughter was curious due to the smell but she didn’t like it fresh today.

The description:

- 2 pounds of cabbage
- 1 scant tablespoon salt
- 1/4 cup starter yogurt whey

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Chopped cabbage
Chopped cabbage
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Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut

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I am not a pickle lover, but some in my family are. So, here is my first attempt at pickle making!
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I substituted the whey with water kefir
I substituted the whey with water kefir
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Cucumbers!
Cucumbers!
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All ready to ferment!
All ready to ferment!

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Here is my submission for "Salt brine ferment/pickle something - PEP BB food.sand.salt":

I am providing a description of the following:
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 - a picture of the ingredients chopped or ready to be packed in jar
 - a picture of the filled jar.

I based my recipe on the sauerkraut recipe in the Nourishing Traditions cookbook, although I did not have caraway seeds so I only used cabbage and salt:
1 medium cabbage, shredded (I had a large cabbage, and started by preparing half, then an additional quarter since there was still room in my quart-sized jar.)
2 T salt (I used extra salt since I did not use whey. I also added some extra with the second batch of cabbage, so that it would be mixed throughout the jar.)
Combine in a bowl and pound for 10 minutes, then pack the cabbage and the juices from the pounding into the jar and cover.

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cabbage shredded, salted, and pounded
cabbage shredded, salted, and pounded
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additional cabbage prepared
additional cabbage prepared
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cabbage packed in purple quart mason jar
cabbage packed in purple quart mason jar
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Ferment Something

I made 2½ quarts of pickled beets from my garden (I think I need to pour the red beets into two quart jars, though, because they're close to overflowing). Two jars are cylindra beets, one is chioggia. I used the pickled beet recipe from Nourishing Traditions, but to the red beets, I added picking spices, cloves, and cinnamon.
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Beets from the garden (shown here with my carrot, which I did not ferment)
Beets from the garden (shown here with my carrot, which I did not ferment)
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Yum yum yum!!
Yum yum yum!!
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I fermented gerkins to make sour dill pickles. I used Sandor Katz recipe from Wild Fermentation with slightly less garlic and did two quart jars.

Ingredients
1kg of gerkins
100g salt
2litres water
3 tablespoons dried dill
4 cloves garlic
tsp peppercorns

Make up the brine, then pack in clean jars. Ferment at room temperature for 1 week or more, taste and refridgerate when to your liking.

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Every year when my garlic bolts I collect the scapes and ferment some to use in stir fries during winter.

The recipe is simple:
garlic scapes
water
salt

I prefer to use a bit more salt for things like this that I use as flavouring so I used somewhere between 4 and 5%. This also slows down the fermentation a bit.
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Collected and chopped garlic scapes
Collected and chopped garlic scapes
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Garlic scapes happily fermenting
Garlic scapes happily fermenting
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Note: looks wonderful. It's hard to tell from the picture. Is it at least one quart jar?

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