Fermented Food Adventures & Recipes
Let’s state at the outset, you can use this recipe to make easy, delicious cornbread with any kind of milk (or buttermilk). When I started experimenting with milk kefir in baking for my first cookbook, I eventually hit upon the idea of kefir corn bread. To cut to the chase […]
If you’re interested in sourdough baking but don’t have a sourdough starter, you may not have realized there’s lots of ways to come up with a “starter” – which is really just a natural yeast source rather than commercial packaged yeast. These are typically just as easy to make as […]
Below is a short video I made which shows how to culture heavy whipping cream with milk kefir (not the grains themselves) in order to produce real kefir sour cream. From there, it can be broken down into butter and buttermilk. For that recipe/process, click here, otherwise scroll down for […]
Kefir milk – that is, milk cultured with “kefir grains” – is a yogurt-like food with many healthy probiotic strains of bacteria and yeast. For a more complete discussion of kefir grains, how to to obtain them and make milk kefir and other recipes, visit my post here. Something less […]
Introduction to Kefir Grains Let’s first clarify that milk kefir “grains” are not grains at all, though they do take on a soft, grain-like appearance and texture. It’s a bit like rice pudding in appearance and consistency. Kefir grains are probiotic colonies of yeast, lactic-acid producing bacteria, lipids, proteins, and […]