Earliest Agricultural Tools

[digitS']

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 improved the flavor but what I had out of a household pressure cooker was absolutely not enuf to bother with. Maybe mixed with some wintergreen oil it would have been pleasant to have rubbed on my back . Without the wintergreen , I had hoped that it would taste like brandy, but noooo.

 

[flowerbug]

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 improved the flavor but what I had out of a household pressure cooker was absolutely not enuf to bother with. Maybe mixed with some wintergreen oil it would have been pleasant to have rubbed on my back . Without the wintergreen , I had hoped that it would taste like brandy, but noooo.

i hope you did some reading up first or knew how to do that without poisoning yourself?! it is certainly one of those things that if you just went into it and drank everything that came out you'd be in for some trouble eventually...

 

[Marie2020]

it has been a long time since i last enjoyed a good dark beer. after my old friend passed away i no longer had my once in a while beer and bratwurst (and saurkraut!) buddy to visit a few times a year.

It's a hard one. So many gone in what seems to be an instant

 

[Marie2020]

@SPedigrees

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 prehistory. The notion that it may have been very early goes along with the idea that wine making played an important role in the development of civilization. You see, if you are a farmer and growing several acres of grapes, you had better have a market where you can exchange your product for the essentials. Your time and resources are tied up in a nonessential.

The winery might have more people involved in this industry. Perhaps, there was a ready market for exchanging wine for food, clothing, etc. Soon, tailors, butchers and bakers arrive with their farmer connections .

It would be quite a revelation to have evidence that farming began as an earlier step as a way to enjoy a ready supply of beer. Etymology, Barn (n.) ... from Old English bereærn "barn," literally "barley house," from bere "barley"...

I met a man that said, making wine was really easy. You just pressed kilos of grapes. Straining out the juice and wine is produced

I'm having enough trouble making sauerkraut. I have to start all over again

 

[digitS']

i hope you did some reading up first

It must have been about 40 years ago.

Research may not have been possible with the revenuers showing up in every glen and hollow.

 

[digitS']

sauerkraut

My one attempt with sauerkraut was a failure. The same with pickles. In the refrigerator pickled cucumbers worked but the recipe was too salty.

Dad was in charge of beer making for 10 years and it all worked well. I suppose that my wine making was a success but it didn't evolve in the intended direction.

 

[Marie2020]

My one attempt with sauerkraut was a failure. The same with pickles. In the refrigerator pickled cucumbers worked but the recipe was too salty.

Dad was in charge of beer making for 10 years and it all worked well. I suppose that my wine making was a success but it didn't evolve in the intended direction.

I find pickling easy. Not sure with this sauerkraut. I'll have to buy another fresh cabbage

 

[SPedigrees]

This item appeared in my email just now and it seems serendipitous to this topic. Today is the day, guys!

 

[Dirtmechanic]

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 similar to those used by the earliest farmers.

Sickles for cutting the barley — The researchers suggest that the annual harvesting of wild barley evolved into the domestication of the crop.

Steve

World's earliest traces of agriculture were recently discovered in a cave

Stone tools and wild barley grains reveal pre-agricultural crop harvesting dating back 9,200 years inside a remote cave.

www.earth.com

Funny the article mentioned pistachio nuts.

Yesterday I made dinner and crushed pistachio with a mortar and pestle. 8000 years later and they get delivered in a hello fresh box.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

I find pickling easy. Not sure with this sauerkraut. I'll have to buy another fresh cabbage

You need the probiotic from a small jar of sourkraut. Think of it as a sourdough starter. It won't take much. 1 Tbsp or 2. There are certain strains that taste better than others in the world of fermenting.