Tag: culturing
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How to Make Sour Cream (Video)
Like so many food products we take for granted, sour cream can be naturally fermented at home! Most of us think of sour cream as a slightly decadent topping for baked potatoes or beef stroganoff, but it doesn’t have to come in a plastic tub from the supermarket. With some good quality cream, some time, and…
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How to Make Kombucha Tea (Video)
We’ve covered a lot about culturing in the past, and kombucha tea absolutely needs to be mentioned. It is one of the easiest home cultures to make and a great place to start if you’d like to get started with culturing. Kombucha is created using a fermentation process, it contains a large number of healthy bacteria known as probiotics. …
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How to Make Sourdough Without a Recipe (Video)
I’m a huge fan of home fermenting and culturing of all kinds. Yogurt, kefir, kombucha, pickled vegetables, and my personal favorite, sourdough bread. Sourdough is not just a distinct flavor of bread, it gets its rich, sour flavor from the leavening culture that causes it both to rise, and changes the metabolic structure of the…
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Home Kombucha Brewing
Kombucha is basically a mushroom that grows in caffeinated tea. Its origin is unclear, but it has been consumed all over the world for hundreds of years at least. Kombucha has become folk medicine, with claims that it can treat anything from cancer to diabetes. While its specific benefits are largely unproven, it is known…
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How to Make A Sourdough Starter
Sourdough starters can be purchased online or you might even have a friend or relative who’s already making them who’d be willing to share. They’re easy to pass around, and you can use just a small amount to grow as much as you want! That’s the beauty of sourdough. To grow your own, you don’t…
