Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Completely obsessed. Here are three clay ostrich eggs I made with the plaster mold from our last craft day: Obviously, the next step is to bring together crafting and pickling! I started with this recipe. It’s salt by volume (argh!) so I converted to metric and weight. 17g salt / 118 ml = 14% Dang that’s very salty! I don’t think lactobacilli can thrive in that, can they? Another recipe said 1T salt with 1c water,…
Way back in 2015 Kathy and Allan gave me a couple ostrich eggs. I’ve been semi-obsessed with them but slow to scratch my creative itch. A couple years ago I made a latex mold… and forgot to add keys so the two halves fit together properly! Har har. Today K&A had us over for craft day so it was a perfect chance to play with eggs again. This time I made a…
The last attempt at Pickled Ginger went bad so I’m giving it another go. I believe I had two problems last time: Low salinity Too much brine The recipes I found were by volume which should always be regarded with suspicion. A tablespoon of shaker salt has more actual NaCl in it than the same volume of course salt. To convert recipes I used this online converter and assume fine grained salt to calculate weight of…
