Words of the Wise Acres

A diary of the projects, hurdles, rewards and family life at we recorded at Wise Acres, our former homestead in Horsefly, BC. (Careers and teenagers have forced us back into the city, at least for a little while.)

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Making Sauerkraut

Posted by Joanne at 9:19 PM
My friend Sara and I have been after Gigi up at Big Bear Ranch to teach us how to make her delicious lacto-fermented sauerkraut and today was the day!  Steffi, another friend joined us and we had a delightful morning chopping, pounding, gabbing and eating Steffi's yummy apfelkuchen.
It is a simple recipe, found here in this book...

The ingredients are basic...chopped cabbage and salt.  The fun part is the pounding...
you add small amounts of the cabbage and then pound it until it produces juice.  Once we filled the jars we put a raspberry leaf on top, which apparently aids in the fermentation process.  Then put the lid on the jar and leave it in a warm place for a week, then move it to a cool room or fridge for a few months.

If  you are really lucky and own one of these beautiful crocks, it works even better...

So simple and so much fun even my friend's daughter got into it!

What a great way to spend the day!

1 comment:

  1. Carpe DiemOctober 7, 2010 at 11:00 PM

    I made my sauerkraut 2 weeks ago. Last weekend I put kimchi and also carrots on to ferment. The kimchi is ready and tastes great. The carrots should be good in another 5 weeks or so - I haven't done them before so I hope they will be good (recipe from the book you mention). My local bookstore called today to say that the "Wild Fermentation" book I ordered is in. Hopefully it has some good recipes in it. Can you tell I'm trying to eat more fermented foods? They are really healthy.

    Have you had hot weather too? I can't believe we had 21c today!

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