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Home » Instagram » Home-fermented olives gifted by @thelandofmint. . These are the best olives I have ever tasted. They are soft, giving when you bite into them, bitter and at the same time sweet. There is salt too, and herbs and a delicate tang of orange zest. . (And not a drop of omega 6 heavy sunflower oil in sight – yes!) . I am super-excited about fermenting olives. I was too late this year – all the ones around me had gone to the frantoio (olive mill) before I could get to it. Next year they won’t escape me!
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Home-fermented olives gifted by @thelandofmint. . These are the best olives I have ever tasted. They are soft, giving when you bite into them, bitter and at the same time sweet. There is salt too, and herbs and a delicate tang of orange zest. . (And not a drop of omega 6 heavy sunflower oil in sight – yes!) . I am super-excited about fermenting olives. I was too late this year – all the ones around me had gone to the frantoio (olive mill) before I could get to it. Next year they won’t escape me!

February 22, 2021 by Ali

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  • Up to 2 years ago, when I thought of beer, I thought ‘bitter’ and ‘it’s a man thing’. . So when I started researching historical brewing I was floored to find out that, for most of history, in most of the world, women have been the brewers. . Add to that the fact that the brews my ancestors in England would have made in their kitchens (yes, kitchens!) was sweet, not bitter and I realised that everything that I thought I knew about beer was wrong. . If you’re curious, listen to today’s @ancestralkitchenpodcast. In it, I share much of what I’ve both learnt and experimented with the last two years. . I’d love your feedback on this episode! Tell me what you knew, didn’t know, what surprised you the most and how you feel after hearing what @farmandhearth and I share :-)
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  • Have you ever lived without an oven? . For several months I had no oven. I had to change how I cooked. That’s nothing on kitchens a few hundred (let alone a few thousand) years ago though; ovens are a really recent thing. . Before ovens, in England, many dishes were steamed instead of being ovened. . Here’s my most recent steamed oat pudding. These were common in the UK (where in many parts oats were the staple cereal) and were often as simple as oats, stock and a bit of onion. Here I’ve added pork, walnuts and orange too. I steamed this for two hours in a glass bowl resting raised off the bottom of a large saucepan that had two inches of simmering water at the bottom. . It’s delicious and the recipe will be going in the book on oats I’m dreaming of writing! . See my story today for more information (and details of how I messed up the first one of these!)
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