Ginger beer is a naturally fermented beverage with only 3 ingredients, ginger, water, and sugar. The fermentation occurs from the bacteria and yeast found in ginger. Lactobacillus is found on all types of food as is the same bacteria that gave us the ability to make tepache. While most supermarket ginger beers are nonalcoholic, the version we are making today has a tiny bit of alcohol. Just under 1%.
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Making A Sourdough Starter
Yeast is a single cell organism that exists all around us. They feed on carbohydrates and as they do so they release CO2. Because of that, yeast is used to leaven bread and convers carbs to alcohol. In baking, yeast is used as an leavening agent where it converts the fermentable sugars from the grains in the dough into CO2. This causes the dough to expand or rise as gas forms pockets of bubbles.
How To Make Sauerkraut At Home?
Fermentation can take from 3-to 10 days and there is no specific amount of time. As if ferments are good to keep it from direct sunlight at a cool room temperature. You can start tasting it after 3 days and when it starts tasting good it would be ready. If you see white bubbles or white foam building at the top it means the fermentation is successful.
What Is A SCOBY And How To Make One?
Step by step advice on how and why you should consider on making your own SCOBY just before you start on your first batch of kombucha.
How To Make Yogurt – Easy Recipe
The basis for any type of yogurt is of course milk. You can use cow milk, goat milk, any milk you want at this point. If you use raw milk you will need to cook it. Since raw milk has never been cooked this way you are killing all the potentially harmful bacteria that can make you sick. Please don’t skip these steps because consuming raw milk can be harmful, especially for children. You want to make sure you bring it to a boil.
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