I did set up a still, once.
Using a pressure cooker, it was quite simple & easy (altho, probably not safe). I used some very mediocre, homemade grape wine. The result was terrible !
Something that I might have tried was distilling it twice. Of course, storing it in an oak cask should have...
I learned recently that sweet potatoes are used for alcohol production. Oh boy, really ?
My wine making experience was supposedly geared to growing and making use of a garden product. No, I didn't want to use grapes since there is so much availability, variety and sophistication in that...
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A couple of years ago, I read about the very early use of wild barley as food for humans. It now seems that there is genetic evidence that it was domesticated in 3 different locations, Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Really, I have no knowledge of when beer making shows up in...
Interesting article about how foraging with repeated harvesting contributed to the development of agriculture. Evidence of the plants used, barley, pistachios and apples, was found by archeologists. Genetically analysis of tissue shows that this food was growing wild but the tools found are...
Curious: Are there other varieties of early cabbage that produce second heads?
Nothing very special about Sunday Supper. We are having spaghetti using some of the last of the slicing tomatoes that were harvested green and have ripened. The "long keeper" that we often have in the gardens...
Tangerines and cold cereal — Crispix & Fruity Cuties from Trader Joe's, with sliced banananana. That DW Fruity Cuties! BTW, she doesn't eat the sugary cereals so things like this are supposed to be at my end of the kitchen counter 😋.