Kelp + Elderberries = Pickles
Posted on March 9, 2007, by kiliii.
Filed Under Pacific Coast |
A whole bunch of folks showed up at my place to pickle the kelp we gathered (a Dancing Hawk workshop, technically). So with this small army of people dying to produce a peck of pickles, we quickly washed, peeled and chopped up our kelp.
Then we mixed up a couple of good pickling mixes, one sweet, and another salty. Our ingredients?
• Elderberry vinegar from a batch of wine that didn’t make the team
• Good Old NaCl for the salty batch
• Sugar from the high steppes and shelves of the grocery store
• Hot Peppers, Mustard Seeds, Garlic, etc…
Popped em into the pressure canner (easier and more safe) for ten minutes at 6 psi, and let them cool off.
We also kept about nine quarts uncanned, for they are going to be fermenting slowly in the dark and mysterious corners of the house for a few weeks. I have great expectations for our kelp.
The best things of all– another great community event, and it took hardly any kelp at all to produce about 20 quarts of pickles. Now that’s not bad.
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