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Place a weight on top of cabbage i use pickle pebbles but you can also just use a smaller mason jar filled with dried beans cover jars with cheesecloth. Stuff into your mason jar.
There should be quite a bit of liquid by the time the jar is filled.
Sauerkraut in a mason jar. All you need to do is combine shredded cabbage with some salt and pack it into a container a crock if you have one and want to make a lot of sauerkraut but a mason jar will do just fine for small batches. The cabbage releases liquid creating its own brining solution. Place a weight on top of cabbage i use pickle pebbles but you can also just use a smaller mason jar filled with dried beans cover jars with cheesecloth.
Check for 24 hours. Ferment for 3 10 days. Remove cheesecloth replace with mason jar lids.
Two ingredients a little bit of muscle and some patience. When it comes to a time investment for sauerkraut you won t be spending months or years on it. Once it s in the mason jars you can expect this process to take anywhere from 3 days up to three weeks.
There isn t any certain time level for fermenting it. You do want to keep this fermented goodness in the fridge though. To make homemade sauerkraut here s all you do.
Massage cabbage with salt. Allow cabbage to sit so the salt draws out even more liquid so that it gets all weepy and juicy. Stuff into your mason jar.
Allow it to ferment. No bacteria or culture starter is needed to get the sauerkraut to ferment. Ingredients cabbage salt to taste mason jar or crock to.
Identified as a staple dish in german since 1960 and native to the chinese sauerkraut is an invention that has graced multiple tables for centuries. This fermented cabbage dish is widely recognised for its versatility health properties and the fact that you can make it without needing. Working one handful at a time pack the sauerkraut into the mason jar using your fist to tamp the cabbage in tightly.
Continue to do this until the jar is 75 85 full. There should be quite a bit of liquid by the time the jar is filled. Top off the jar with additional brine from the massaging bowl.
Mason jar sauerkraut. After an afternoon of thinning and harvesting the garden beds that we shared this summer as part of a backyard garden series in whitehorse a group of us learned how to make single jar batches of sauerkraut. Making sauerkraut is one way to preserve.