Let ’s handle a few interesting items from this week .
Pickling/Fermenting
“ A friend who grow up on his family farm say his grandmother made sauerkraut the sometime way , in a wooden bbl . He said that as a little male child his job was to stomp the bbl down with his bare feet as his uncles shredded cabbage , his mom added saltiness and nanna tasted it to verify the engrossment was right-hand .
Half direction through one yr , he aver he heard his uncle require , “ Has this boy washed his feet ? ”
I make quart shock sauerkraut every Fall , and my wife makes Kimchi throughout the year . The bottom shelf of the fridge is dedicated to the quart shock of kraut . I have had good luck with the salt eviscerate enough brine out of the rip up cabbage , but you need to let it baby-sit out a while to sweat out the brine . ”
It always take incessantly to make the brine out of the cabbage when we did it , and it was never enough .
“ Really enjoyed this method . I detest have to smash up moolah for what feels like minute just to push enough liquidness out of it . I should have just trusted my inherent aptitude and used a salt water brine like this . BTW , ginger and cultivated carrot adds a unequalled flavor to the Boche as well . sample it some time if you have n’t but not too much . I just tear up one medium / small cultivated carrot and about a 2inch firearm of ginger . ”
Ginger sounds good to me !
Rosehaven writes :
“ Rachel ’s ferment fix recipe filmed in the tropical kitchen is my go - to formula .
We liked those filling so much we purchase a wrick , and make cabbage in it . We really enjoy it . give thanks you , Rachel and David . ”
You are very welcome ! I really have a Formosan cabbage in the electric refrigerator right now that needs to be put into some homemade kimchi .
An Update from the Dairy
Rachel found a beautiful small gift in the domain earlier this week :
This time we arrest a little heifer ! What a approving ! Rachel has name her Princess .
Rachel milked out the mummy ( Sweetie - Pie ) yesterday dawn and get under one’s skin over two gallons of foremilk from her , some of which we ’re freezing to save for the future .
The cows are doing dandy so far and are very easy to manage . Of all the brute we ’ve raised , these Dexters are probably the good and most productive .
Flannel Farms
My comrade go in for a heart catheterisation this morning as they inspect what seems to be a busted valve . He came through it okay , but we are concerned . Pray for his complete healing and that this trouble can be resolved – or simply taken aside through a miracle .
Speaking of my brother , he posted a very entertaining video in the beginning this week . If you have n’t understand it yet , I cogitate you ’ll care it :
In Other Other News
Our washing auto has been break for two weeks , so we ’re headed off to the laundromat with a ton of laundry this good afternoon .
We ’re also under contract on a new homestead and beg that go through . Life does n’t block , but God is with us in what we do .
I have been listening to this call a lot late :
Have a majuscule weekend .
