So if we were you, we'd buy a fridge freezer with
lots of food preservation technologies to keep your food fresher for longer.
About Blog A place to share recipes and discuss all
types of food preservation including canning, freezing, dehydration, pickling, curing, smoking, salting, distilling, root cellaring, potting and jugging.
About Blog A place to share recipes and discuss all types
of food preservation including canning, freezing, dehydration, pickling, curing, smoking, salting, distilling, root cellaring, potting and jugging.
For people living without modern medicine and refrigeration, fermentation has always been not only a simple
means of food preservation, but also a way to imbue foods with health - promoting properties, an essential tool for maintaining the gut health.
Oh - and this website is a great reference for all
kinds of food preservation - it even has a search tool for finding pick - your - own farms near you:
Historically, people didn't have the same problems with their gut health as we do today for the simple fact that they got large quantities of beneficial bacteria, i.e. probiotics, from their diet in the form of fermented or cultured foods, which were invented long before the advent of refrigeration and other
forms of food preservation.
Lacto - fermentation of vegetables, such as cabbage, is a time - honored method
of food preservation which relies on naturally present beneficial bacteria (lactobacilli) to convert carbs and sugar into lactic acid.
In this entertaining, enlightening
history of food preservation, Shephard reveals the fascinating cultural backstory behind how and why we learned to salt, smoke, ferment, pickle, and cure food.
Nov. 30, 1858, marked a revelation in the
world of food preservation with the creation of John Landis Mason's revolutionary jar, making the all - important act of canning much more simple --(historical) housewives rejoice!
About Blog A place to share recipes and discuss all
types of food preservation including canning, freezing, dehydration, pickling, curing, smoking, salting, distilling, root cellaring, potting and jugging.
About Blog A place to share recipes and discuss all types
of food preservation including canning, freezing, dehydration, pickling, curing, smoking, salting, distilling, root cellaring, potting and jugging.
We find ancient scholars from Confucius to Pliny the Elder extolling the merits of this method
of food preservation.
Freezing, drying, pickling, all the conventional methods
of food preservation, were vital innovations to help society advance.
Although pickling is an ancient method
of food preservation, the use of hot peppers in Korean kimchi dates from only two centuries ago.
It was once thought that ferments were used merely as a means
of food preservation.
Some methods
of food preservation and processing actually make nutrients more available — these include simmering bones in acidic liquid to make broth, culturing of dairy products, sprouting and traditional methods of pickling, fermenting and leavening.
In this workshop we will look at the benefits and disadvantages of each of these methods
of food preservation.
Some methods
of food preservation can take the form of canning, freezing, dehydrating, or fermentation.
Natural methods
of food preservation, without the need for pasteurization, chemicals, dyes, or harsh preservative.
They now can buy shelf stable milk instead of the time consuming process of maintaining an active culture that is historically known «for improving food safety in Africa as a low - cost method
of food preservation and in improving the nutritional quality of the food raw materials» [1].
Dehydration, or drying, is one of the oldest and gentlest methods
of food preservation.
Drying foods is the third method
of food preservation.