How to make sauerkraut! Day 15
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Welcome to Day 15 of the #EveryBitCountsChallenge! In this episode, we’re diving into the art of fermentation as we harvest our garden-fresh cabbage and transform it into delicious, gut-healthy sauerkraut. Join us as we share tips and techniques for achieving the perfect fermentation, ensuring that every bite is packed with flavor and probiotics.
Maintenance in the north green house goes much better then expected. See how simply moves make a huge impact on all the beautiful veggies we have growing there.
Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just starting your journey, this video is filled with inspiration and practical advice for making the most of your harvest. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more tips on sustainable gardening and healthy eating. Let’s make every bit count together!
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I know you like to do some freezer meal prep for days life just gets busy. You could make up some stuffed Cabbage rolls for freezer meals.
Yummy sounds amazing
OMG I love sauerkraut. My grandmother (full German) use to make it but I thought it was a very involved process so never thought to make it. I had no idea it was that easy to make! Our cabbage heads are not very compact like yours so they are eaten quickly out of the garden. Now I will try this method so we can enjoy our cabbage for an extended period of time. GREAT 🌟
It’s honestly so easy trying to make a video out of it is hard because it’s so simple not much to say or show!
@@modernhomesteadalaska You may think it is not that interesting until you hear it brings up memories for someone ( I am 66) that they had long forgotten. Grandma and sauerkraut.
You have had a Fantastic Gardening season in the new digs! Wonderful healthy, lush looking plants! Beautiful to see the garden & all that they get turned into in your kitchen. Thankful for you & all that share on CZcams to inspire & teach others to take the steps into doing many of these things too. Thank You!
Thank you it’s been a beautiful season !
Greenhouse looks great ! I can’t believe how beautiful your garden is and so much to harvest . You should be very proud of all the work you and Aaron and the family have done! I bought cabbage at a Mennonite farm two days ago and it sure didn’t look like that ! I love to put cabbage rolls in the freezer . Thank you ! 🥬🫙🥬
Thank you that’s one good idea the freezer cabbage rolls!
They are so good ! 🦋
Wow, lots of cabbage. My grandfather taught us that you should soak your cabbage in salt water. That ensures there are no worms that come from the inside. If there are any they will float.
That’s a great point
You are not the only one with loose or small heads. I am in Southern California and consider myself beyond lucky to get ANY cabbage from my spring crop. I have a couple small heads and a couple other loose heads. Yours look great. Isn't it amazing what a great feeling it is to produce your own no matter how imperfect?!
I am so impressed. They might be loose but they taste fantastic. And I did it! You are so right the satisfaction of I did this is beyond something to comprehend
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My dad did most of the gardening, mom picked and canned the vast majority. Probably a few hundred jars every year. Daddy did the sauerkraut in a huge crock every year. It was so good and crunchy.
So yummy!
We have always had real good success with the Heirloom Copenhagen Market Cabbage. Big, tight heads & makes excellent sauerkraut. We just use cabbage & salt in a crock. Might take longer but it is sooooooo good! Then we can the kraut, pts. & qts. We don't add seeds or ?. Just what comes out of the crock.
We like it simple too!
when my friend from Kenya came to buy goats he always asked for the big cabbage ,broccoli leaves. I asked about it from him and he said that they were the best part of the plant. we decided to make cabbage roles out of the outer leaves. it is a family tradition now to make cabbage rolls before we harvested the heads. they are wonderful.
What an interesting story! Thank you for sharing
Hello, what a beautiful garden! You make things look so easy and i always learn so much! Thank you for sharing you day with us and have a wonderful weekend.
You are so welcome thank you for watching!
Your green houses & garden look fabulous!!! I love kraut- Reuben sandwiches, hot dogs, & so many others. 💜
The greenhouses sure did pay off or at least the appear to be paying off
Hello Jessica. Nice job on the greenhouse. The sauerkraut looks great. Your garden is looking good. Thanks for sharing✌️🇺🇸🥰
Thanks so much! 😊
Hi sweet one! Your greenhouse cleanup looks amazing! I have never made cabbage into sauerkraut...I think I might try that. You rock!!! Big hugs and many blessings!!
It’s so easy todo! I love it
Do your children know how to grow and preserve their own food? It’s wonderful that you provide this for them but I’m interested if they know how if they had to! 😊
Yes they don’t like being recorded very often but yes! Also they do a great deal of harvesting wild game and if you do it you process it fully all the way to the freezer.
I loved making kraut! I fermented mine in a huge crock , then transferred to quart jars.
We had a neighbor who added peppers and onions to her fermenting kraut. Really tasty!
Until we visit again...make some cabbage rolls with that bounty. They freeze well too! ❤ Momma G
I love it so yummy!
Great greenhouse clean up to give you room to move around better in there. My squash plants did not do well this year. The sauerkraut looks great, and I know it is going to taste so good! God bless you all!
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Wow Jessica, look at what you did! Reach back and give yourself a little pat! Your garden is gorgeous! The produce looks sooo good! Love this challenge- prob exhausting for you but greatly appreciated! Thank you 😊
Thank you! Will do!
We really need a ❤ button! Thank you for sharing
Oh so kind of you
Good ol’ saurkraut is the best!!! 😋
Agree!
Hi Jessica and sweet family! You’re such a hard working woman. It definitely shows in your greenhouse, garden and homestead.
Oh I love sauerkraut. My kids even liked kraut.
My grandmother was German and some kraut she would add fennel and caraway seeds.
I still make a dish with potatoes, onions, sausages with kraut seasoned with fennel and caraway, so good. It was one of our favorite dishes when we were kids and an easy meal for my mother to make. We just talked about that dish the other day and I’m going to fix it for her this weekend.
I hope you and the family have a very blessed day! ❤️
Oh I love it! I tried the flavor ones I think Aaron might like it the German way you shared!
FYI cabbage last a long time whole keep cool or even refrigerate then you can have fresh cabbage for several months God bless
Totally! I need to make space for fresh eating ones when they get closer
I take country style pork ribs, 1 can of beer and sauerkraut in crockpot and cook on low for 8 hrs. Serve with mashed potatoes. YUMMY. Thanks for sharing...............grams from ohio
Oh my sooo sooo good!
Amazing!
I use the large inner leaves to make cabbage rolls! They freeze very well for me. Cabbage chow chow relish.
Yummy idea
bet peaches will love those cabbage leaves
Garden and greenhouse looks great.
Thank you so much
Cabbage rolls. Yummy
Oh yes!
A fun video in your beautiful garden!! You're a hard worker!!
Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing. I never knew how sour kraut was made
Seriously it’s so easy friend! Thanks Bill
I would can a bunch of sourkrout. A southern New Year's tradition was pork ribs with sourkrout onions and potatoes stewed and served with black eyed peas ,tomatoes and cornbread for luck for the New Year. But I could eat krout every day!
That sounds so amazing!
Rachael from "that 1870's homestead" has an amazing recipe with video for a canned cabbage coleslaw.. it looks sooo good.. I love alone so I am currently hung up on the math for making a micro batch 🥴🥴 but they love it so much they literally serve a small portion on almost every meal.. well.. at least like 5 or so times a week it seems 😂😂😂😂
lol yeah I too like to make small ish batches when I’m not 100% sure we will like it
I’m sure you, and most of your viewers, know that pepper plants like to be dry. Growing them in bags or blocks in the garden allows you to control the water closely, allowing them to almost wilt between watering😊. Remove the first couple flowers to let the green get stronger, but avoid fertilizer after the green is established to let the plant concentrate on fruiting instead of greenery.
Agree and tomatoes too. I wait until I can’t feel moisture, had no idea the inside ground would soak up so much from the rain and the bags would pull it up. It’s been quite a learning year
I need to harvest my cabbage this weekend and make kraut as well as
So good! Good luck it’s raining on me againn
I think loose hearts of cabbages is a sign of plentiful rain!! Beautiful crop, all the best xx
Yes! Thank you!
I used to help my mother to "salt" down green beans 58 years ago, its never talked about now-a-days!
That’s so funny! We have lost so much over the years! Let’s bring the old ways back
I’ve been wanting to make saurkraut for a while.
It’s so good so quick and simple.
Hello Jessica
Will be doing cabbage rolls?
We like your videos😊
I am now that so many have recommended them for sure maybe next month I should do a buck of freezer meals
Thanks Jessica🥰🇬🇧
Thank you for watching
The tear shaped cabbages look like what we call sugarloaf cabbage in Australia
Love it I’ll look back at my seeds and see what I planted
Have you tried pollinating your plants. I use a q-tip.
Yeah I just couldn’t catch them at the sane time. I should of moved them outside earlier
I made a 5 gallon plastic bucket of kraut turned out great had 19 pints from 1/2 bucket , I waterbath canned it
That’s amazing
Good job Jess.
Thank you
Loved watching you. I tried to make it before different and alway lost it.
Sorry to hear that
Hi Jessica, haven't watched a video this early forever. It's usually watch at midnight with a cup of tea. I love cabbage soup, cabbage and noodles, plain boiled cabbage, but have never made sauerkraut. I am the only one who likes it in my family. I'll try one small cabbage for myself. What did you make for dinner?
Poutine from moose bone broth gravy and Aaron’s smoked meat I found in the freezer. And we are the cauliflower and broccoli
Looks so good😊
Thank you 😋
Thank you Jessica for the show. Cabbage is my Nemesis 😂😂😂
lol love it! Thank you
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I think you need more air flow. Can you open the doors or roll up the side a little? The plants look great.
Yes we open it it’s just dropping so low it hit the upper 30s the other night so we can’t keep it open
Enjoyed the video 😊
Glad you enjoyed
My understanding is blossom end rot occurs when the plants aren’t able to get enough calcium either because it’s not available or not enough watering.
Yes you are correct
There's a show of a family who helps homesteaders called Homestead Rescue have you seen the show? They are the Raineys. They live there in Alaska also.
We saw them at a restaurant one time.
@@modernhomesteadalaska that is so cool I'd love to meet them some day!
Wow! Greenhouse looks great!!!! 😊
Thank you! 😊
Another great video. I love the way you can multitask. I’m going to try your sauerkraut recipe! ❤
It's so good!
Hi to bad you couldn’t set the squash bags outside 😊
I know I should of done it a month ago it would of been the right call
we have some butternut squash left I think today I'll peel cut blanch can it, my dogs love it n taking up counter space n we've used up most I did make batch of butternut soup n froze it. k8fs took some but think I'll can what I have left on counter
Kodie and I live butternut squash
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Hey Jessica. ❤
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Your cabbage is amazing. The slugs and cabbage worms leave me with heads like swiss cheese. Even row cover helps very little😢
Wow I’m amazed after fighting slugs in the greenhouse that my cabbage is left alone
Those outside big leaves would make perfect cabbage rolls
Great idea!
Good evening Jessica, I have a question for you...where did you get your wooden tool you used to smash down the cabbage into the jars? Ooh, BTW I love your channel and have been watching for a long time. Keep up the great content!!!
It came with the ball weights and ferment package
Peppers are going to be much happier
Agree!
Hello Jessica. Do you ever give any garden scraps to peaches or just the chickens? If I rinse sauerkraut enough I can enjoy it. The greenhouse looks great. Thats a lot of cabbage for not knowing how to grow it. Thank you for another excellent video!!
No peaches can have the grass I’ll give her that when I’m just pulling grass out of the walk ways but I don’t feed her scraps. She wouldn’t forage naturally for cabbage and carrots so it’s not good for her. Likes an example I don’t give carrots to the rabbits because they wouldn’t actually dig up the carrot they would just eat the top off. So I keep that in mind, would peaches find grass in a field and eat it, yes. Would she find garlic in a field and eat it no so I don’t feed her it. Also onions and tomato and potatoes are a no for all the animals. That gets used by us or compost. Even the dogs can’t have onion. Hope that helps understand my thinking
@@modernhomesteadalaska it does, thank you
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Hello beautiful friend!
That zucchini situation is because the blossom didn't get pollinated. We literally take male flowers, depetal them and pollinate the female flowers.
Agree
peaches n chickens or just chickens for garden scrapes
Chicken and rabbits not peaches
@modernhomesteadalaska yumm eitherbway I forgot bout rabbits how much linger til you harvest them?
do u put fan for air movement or roll.up sides?? or even open doors?
Roll up sides and open window
Do you guys or neighbors grow Alaska / Siberian Rhodiola Rosea herb?
I’m not sure I know what that is I’ll look around
I see you still have some lady bugs in the green house. There was one on your shoulder while you were talking.
Yes I didn’t notice until I edited the video! They are alive and well especially since the doors are open they could leave but they are still helping me fight the good fight!
I am not sure what cabbage variety you are growing, but the one that is shaped like a cone looks like a Wakefield variety. I don’t think you let develop as much as they could have. Cabbage heads should be very hard and heavy when you harvest them.
It’s the amount of rain we get here. Cabbage is tough it likes cool temps but not 10,000 gallons of water.
How long does the cabbage stay in the jar?
You can leave it out for upto 2 weeks and get super strong flavor. But when it reaches your desired strength put in fridge it will last months in cold storage
@@modernhomesteadalaska thank you very much for the swift reply
Las flores de zuchinni se pueden freir y comer, ¿Por qué las tiraste?😢
My garden died from all the rain we had😢.
That’s so very very sad
Why cant you simply can it after fermentation?
You could, if you heat it, it kills the good stuff and makes it less of a ferment and more just canned. But if that’s the method or space so on you have then by all means I would can it too.
I sent you a small gift it says they couldn’t deliver you likely need to pick it up at UPS hope you like it
Oh wow thank you! That’s so very kind.
Looks east
What looks east?