Like mole, this sauce relies heavily on dried peppers. They can indeed be used in fermentation, but you need sources of fresh produce in there – I advise roughly 50% – in order to provide the healthy bacteria that makes fermentation possible. Although the sweetness of traditional mole comes in […]
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Honey-Fermented Charoset
If you’ve never heard of charoset, you can think of it as a kind of biblical-era ambrosia. It is one of several symbolic foods eaten by Jews during the holiday of Passover. Charoset can be understood to mean “mortar,” derived from the Hebrew word cheres which is clay, as its […]