Tag Archives: Fermentation

Different weeks

Posted on March 25, 2021 by deborah @ the magic jug

I decided this month was going to be a month of catch-ups. With the end of lockdown approaching (we hope…) my time is going to be more in demand and there will be less unallocated time to play with. Back … Continue reading →

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Goodbye February, hello March!

Posted on March 10, 2021 by deborah @ the magic jug

I know, we’re already a third of the way through March. I’m late. Sorry about that. I looked through my photos from February to remind myself where the month went. I can see I walked a lot, most days. I … Continue reading →

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Time and time again

Posted on January 13, 2021 by deborah @ the magic jug

I’ve written before about the importance of time as an essential, often unspoken, ingredient in food. There can be no better examples of this than when we make fermented foods or grow our own food. I spent much of today … Continue reading →

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A Further Adventure in Fermentation

Posted on July 14, 2019 by deborah @ the magic jug

And now for my latest Adventure in Fermentation.  This one courtesy of our friend Richard, who was kind enough to repay my gift of kefir grains with a gift of a kombucha scoby. If ‘kombucha‘ and ‘scoby‘ are new words … Continue reading →

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Fermentation update

Posted on November 30, 2018 by deborah @ the magic jug

This is just a little post.  I wanted to share with you some recent fermentation successes. Kefir – part 1 – with some trepidation, I left my kefir in the fridge while we went away for almost a fortnight.  Wondering … Continue reading →

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Fermentation: making sauerkraut

Posted on September 28, 2018 by deborah @ the magic jug

This one is for Richard xx My adventures in sauerkraut have not all been happy ones.  It’s fair to say that I’ve had my share of (very smelly) experimental failures.  But failure is a step on the path to success, … Continue reading →

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Fermenting: making kefir

Posted on September 24, 2018 by deborah @ the magic jug

I’ve been interested for a while in all things fermented, so when oldest son and daughter-out-law offered me some milk kefir grains earlier in the summer, of course I couldn’t refuse.  I had a wee taste first, and to be … Continue reading →

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Do what you can with what you have: fermenting well

Posted on March 12, 2018 by deborah @ the magic jug

On my list of things I’d like to do this year I included learning how to ferment (preferably without creating a new range of chemical weapons).  To my surprise, I seem to have done exactly that. As I looked around … Continue reading →

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Sauerkraut inspirations: fermenting an idea

Posted on March 8, 2016 by deborah @ the magic jug

Ideas can take a while to develop their flavour. Inspired by the exhibition and demonstrations I went to back in January, I have started my first try-out at making sauerkraut.  This (like the eventual sauerkraut) has been a long time in … Continue reading →

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Culture

Posted on January 26, 2016 by deborah @ the magic jug

Definition (OED): The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively The ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society The cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc. in an artificial medium containing nutrients So, there … Continue reading →

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