Posts Tagged ‘step-by-step’
Culturing Vegetables
While it seems cultured foods such as designer kombucha and fermented vegetables are a health food trend, cultured foods have been around as long as people have. Naturally fermented foods were borne out of necessity: to preserve food in the absence of refrigeration. Naturally fermented foods, also called cultured foods, result from harnessing naturally occurring…
Read MoreFresh Tinctures for July
Making a herbal tincture is the process of soaking plant material in a menstruum (that is, a solvent) to extract the medicinal components into the said menstruum to use for medicine. A menstruum can be alcohol, water, vinegar, oil, wine, glycerin, honey, or a combination of any aforementioned. Tinctures are handy because one would need…
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