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The cabbage releases liquid creating its own brining solution. Top off the jar with additional brine from the massaging bowl.
You also need a very large glass jar or sauerkraut crock and some sort of weight for the top.
Sauerkraut in mason jars. 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. 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. Place massaged cabbage into wide mouth mason jars.
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. 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. 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. All that you need to make sauerkraut is cabbage and sea salt.
You also need a very large glass jar or sauerkraut crock and some sort of weight for the top. I used a large mason jar a piece of plastic wrap and a plastic bag filled with water as a weight. Eventually i want to buy my own sauerkraut crock but they are rather expensive.
Make sauerkraut in a mason jar. For this fermentation method you ll want to pick up a wide mouth mason jar. A simple head of cabbage will fit nicely in one quart or two pint jars.
Prepare your cabbage by removing any discolored outer leaves and then quarter your cabbage and cut out the core. How to make sauerkraut in a mason jar. This recipe makes a half gallon of sauerkraut.
Simply cut the recipe down if you wish to make smaller amounts. 1 large head cabbage about 3 or 4 pounds 3 tablespoons of real sea salt buy here filtered water 1 2 gallon mason jar wide mouth buy here fermenting lid optional buy here.