Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30493 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Customer Reviews

good reference and easy to use
I enjoyed reading the pages and the recipes are easily understood. I like that the instructions are for home kitchen cooks. I do wish more about the limitations could have been addressed.

More objective info available elsewhere
This book adequately describes how to ferment vegetables such as cabbage with a fermentation crock, but the same information could be obtained with a quick search of the Internet. There is no discussion about the risks of fermenting, and I wonder of the authors' enthusiasm for the "miracle healing powers" of fermented vegetables (discussed in considerable detail) might be clouding their objectivity. The authors emphasize the use of a particular brand of fermentation crock, and I was disappointed that alternative techniques were not discussed in much detail.

Making sauerkraut and pickled vegetables at home
This book is a disappointment. I bought it after I got my Harsch fermentation crock and I do not find it very useful. There are 8 recipes for fermentation for different vegetables (in addition to two different variations for sauerkraut)and about half of the book has 9 food recipes all for sauerkraut (ie pineapple sauerkraut, reuben, etc) with a full page color glossy photo on the opposite page of the recipe (wasteful in my opinion). There is a section on adding herbs and spices and it is unhelpful as it does not give details for many of them on how to use/prepare them for fermentation. There is an interesting section on Healing with Lactic Acid Fermentation, but that is about it. The biggest reason I do not like this book is that there is little troubleshooting detail or any help/suggestions for fermentation when the conditions are less than ideal.