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Daikon Radish Pickles

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Fermentation, Food
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...to-fermented foods include sauerkraut, kimchi, Swiss cheese, and sourdough bread among many others. Lactic acid producing bacterias, and there are many different varieties, tend to have a high tolerance for salt unlike their unwanted bacterial cousins. The process of lacto-fermentation begins with creating a brine, which is the is the way pickles used to be made–most store bought pickles are now made with vinegar due to unwarranted safety concerns...

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Thoughtstylings
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...ad without refrigeration” We made a very successful batch of the Ethiopian bread injera back in March without any refrigeration involved. In fact refrigeration would probably prevent it from fermenting as it’s supposed to. Comrades, it’s time to overcome your food safety paranoias! “Accidentally flushed tampon applicator” Our favorite search phrase, and in fact something we’ve witnessed first hand when we paid a visit to a sewage treatment plant b...

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Injera

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Bread, Fermentation, Food
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...future post), and cooked up a batch of the fermented Ethiopian crepe-like bread called injera. Injera is made by fermenting overnight a mixture of sourdough starter, whole wheat flour, water, salt and teff flour. Teff is an extremely fine grain grown in Africa. It’s so tiny in fact that a handful of seeds is enough to plant a small farm. Teff is grown in the US by the Teff Company of Caldwell Idaho and is available (though somewhat expensive) at...

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California Buckwheat

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Food, Foraging
...le seeds. We’ve gathered the seeds we’ve found in fields and baked it into bread and added it to cereal to both boost nutritional value and to add a nutty flavor. The local and resourceful Tongva Indians used the roots and leaves for headaches and stomach problems, among many other uses including using the stems to pierce ears. California buckwheat is available from the Theodore Payne Foundation which runs a native plant nursery in the Sun Valley...

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Revolutionary Rusks

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Bread, Food
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.... Recipe: Dry ingredients 2 cups unbleached white flour 2 cups whole wheat bread flour (the recipe calls for coarsely ground whole wheat flour but we use all-purpose whole wheat flour and then add 2 tablespoons wheat germ and 2 tablespoons ground flax seed) 1/3 cup sugar ½ teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup chopped almonds Wet ingredients ½ cup melted butter 2 eggs ¾ cup buttermilk 2 teaspoons pure vanilla 2 teaspoons pure almond extrac...

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