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Making Sauerkraut From Scratch, The Real Way

Fermentation is a scary proposal for the uninitiated, but saurkraut is soooo delicious.

Boing Boing founder Mark Frauenfelder has an excellent writeup on how to make delicious delicious sauerkraut. And not the pickled kind that eventually (always) gives you heartburn.

The only ingredients required are a couple of cabbages and some salt.

You’ll need a special tool, though. A stone fermenting jar and lid.

The jist of it is that you cut the cabbage into strips, shove it into the jar in layers and salt each layer, then put the lid on top and weigh it down with something heavy. Leave it to sit unmolested for a couple of weeks and you have sauerkraut.

Easy, right?

If you try it before I do, be sure to tell me how it goes.

[Making sauerkraut is easy]

Tags: fermenting, Food, home made

No Viking is Complete Without His Mead

If you’re one of us who runs around in his codpiece, cape, and horned helmet, you’ll recognize that feeling. That feeling that something is missing. The feeling that drinking a bud light just isn’t the right choice… for you.

But where can you get the appropriate beverage?

The local supermarket doesn’t stock it, and that nasty honey wheat ale you tried at Taco Mac just won’t cut it.

What’s a viking to do?

Make your own mead!

With just honey, yeast and time, you’ll be on your way to the true prison wine viking experience.

Tags: fermenting, Food