Carbonating: The Cheap and Easy Way. Have you ever wanted to make your own carbonated beverages such as soda and carbonated water?
Well, I have. However, after doing a lot of research I realized that the carbonation machines you can buy cost hundreds of dollars. But then I found this way of doing it. It costs very little and can be made with stuff found around the house. It's great for making homemade sodas, seltzer water, and even re-carbonating flat beverages. WARNING: BE CAREFUL! Sorry about the crappy video. See The Video Here. Kombucha & Kefir. Kombucha Recipes. How to Make Probiotic Ginger Beer food beverages - search Instructables.
Bottle your Ginger Beer. Simple Preserved Lemons. Homemade ginger ale. Making Kimchi. Begin with a clean space.
Make sure that your hands and utensils(knives, cutting board, storage vessels) are clean. The last thing you want to do is "cure" some illness into the goods. It is advised to bring a pot of water to a boil and pour it into the jars or container that will hold the kimchi. While the water is cooling begin to wash/scrub your ingredients. The staples of the recipe are Chinese cabbage, onions, garlic, ginger, and hot red peppers. Feel free to modify the recipe to suit seasonal and local produce, but cabbage must be the main vegetable you use as it's juices and leaves contain the beneficial bacteria that we are using to ferment the kimchi. The following ingredients were used because we already had some, and the rest were easy to find locally and organically.
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How to Make Wine. Winemaking, also known as Homebrewing, is completely legal in the US and many other places.
As follows is what I KNOW is legal in the US(1): 1. You can make up to 100 gallons by yourself or 200 max, if you live with other people, annually. 2. Lactofermented Granola. Of course you can use any ingredients that you want in your granola.
Basically we want grains, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, etc. As for amounts, just eyeball it. How to Make Natural Whey. Whey is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained, and is the starter for lacto-fermented fruits, vegetables, and beverages.
This is an adaptation of the whey recipe from Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions. Using this method, you get wonderful cream cheese and whey, which can be used to make sauerkraut, ginger ale, or many other lacto-fermented foods. It couldn't be easier: Put plain yogurt in a dish towel or cheese cloth and let the whey drip out overnight. How to make your own Fermentation Lock (Not a balloon!)
Are you thinking about making your own wine or beer?
There are lots of quick and simple recipes out there for making wine but many of them suggest you use a balloon as your airlock. While this is very cheap and practical, I have found that many people claim it can leave a "rubbery" taste in your drink. Commercial airlocks are not expensive by any means, but if you are like me and don't live close to a home brew store, you are on your own. Lacto-fermented Ginger Ale. I love making homemade ginger ale because I get to control the ginger's strength.
I like it strong. I've even found my personal upper-bound. From my kitchen notebook: 1:5 ratio of freshly made ginger juice to balance of other ingredients roughly following instructions at Homemade ginger ale is too much ginger. One glass made my stomach hurt. How to Make Authentic Water Kefir. Water Kefir (pronounced keh-FEER) is not as well known as milk kefir.
But it is the same concept - symbiotic grains of bacteria and yeast that ferment a specific liquid - in this case, a sugar-water-fruit liquid. It produces a mild, light and refreshing, slightly carbonated beverage. The basic flavor is likened to a weak cola or apple cider, but most people add molasses, fruit, vanilla beans or other flavors. With so many options the final flavor is really up to you (our favorites being lemon-ginger, dark cherry and concord grape). What's the difference between water kefir and kombucha? Ginger Ale Syrup. The REAL ginger beer recipe! This instructable features making ginger beer from a real GBP plant, not yeast which has been in existance for probably centuries.
If you've drunk commercial ginger beer it's nothing like this, it has a much smoother, tangy, fuller flavour than the sharp crisp versions made with just yeast. Oh how so many people have been fooled into making authentic, real ginger beer! Tsk tsk! Traditional ginger beer was made using a ginger beer plant. This is NOT something that you can easily make yourself - it must be possible to make it yourself because someone hundreds of years ago by chance seems to have created it.
I have heard dark rumours that you can make one by blanching ginger and leaving it with wild yeasts to ferment (just like a sourdough starter). It is only in recent generations (read: 1887) that a gentleman called Harry Marshall Ward looked into the sybiotic relationship and had he have known it was going to pretty much consume the rest of his life, he'd probably not have bothered.
Enjoy! Making the Ginger Beer.