THRIVING after the FALL
Book One FEASTING after the FALL

The Menu · Small dishes and charcuterie

Spreewald dill pickles

Served in The Evening, course 3: Salami, game terrine, Spreewald pickles.

Sour and fermented Berlin and Brandenburg

What it rests on

The dish as the book builds it, from the plate down to the ground.

  1. The plate

    Spreewald dill pickles

  2. Ingredients

  3. Crafts

  4. Tools

  5. Ground

Its documents

The chapters that use them

In the log

The claims that cite its documents, the safety rows first.

  • S5 confirmed Safety Light brine 3.5 to 5 % of total weight for lacto-fermentation
  • R1 amended Safety Sauerkraut 20 g salt per kg (18 to 30 range); brined vegetables 35 to 50 g per kg total; 18 to 22 °C first week then cellar
  • S8 confirmed Saturated brine 26.4 % by weight = 100 °SAL; each 10 ° about 2.6 %
  • R8 amended Dutch settlers brought cucumber pickling to the Spreewald in the 14th century; Fontane on Spreewald pickles (1860s)