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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.
The plate
Spreewald dill pickles
Ingredients
Crafts
- The light brine, 3.5 to 5 % Chapter 11 114 93
- Under the brine for three weeks Chapter 13 93
Tools
- The crock, Bunzlau or Görzke stoneware Chapter 17 140
- A weight and a cloth Chapter 13
Ground
- 300 m² of garden, 25 beds Chapter 6 133
- The cellar, 7 m³ Chapter 12 64 126
Its documents
- 114 Traditional Fermented Pickle Recipe The Science and Praxis of Traditional Barrel-Fermented Dill Pickles: Osmotic Dynamics, Microbial Succession, and Defect Prevention
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)