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The cellar and the store

Keeping the harvest through the winter, in the cellar, the clamp, the drying tray and the larder cage.

14 documents · 2 chapters · 44 rows

In the chapters

Chapter 7 The Orchard and the Wild
The Story: The cellar and the press
At the Bench: 6. Drying and blending a tisane
Chapter 12 Cold and Dark
The Story: The clamp
At the Bench: 1. Running a cellar through the year, 3. The clamp, 4. The dryer
Chapter 13 Sour
Numbers to Carry: 18 to 22 degrees until clearly sour and still, two to four weeks, then the cellar, A dried spare, given to two neighbours

Documents 14

In the log 44

22 confirmed
11 amended
4 partly confirmed
7 unresolved
9 marked for safety

G2 amended Safety Ascaris eggs >99 % dead after three to seven weeks at 55 °C; they survive chlorination and drying and are the indicator organism
F5 amended Safety Aflatoxin/ochratoxin in beans stored above 13–14 % / aw 0.65
O8 confirmed Safety Dried herbs carry Salmonella, E. coli, B. cereus, S. aureus; drying is no kill step; cold brew only with pasteurised herbs; botulism in sealed low-acid brews
B9 amended Safety Trichinella: every part of an untested pig cooked to 70 °C at centre; no raw Mett, cold-smoked raw sausage or air-dried ham from an untested pig; dies in 1 min at 60, at …
E8 confirmed Safety Household rule: hot-smoked fish 4–5 days in the cellar in open air, 2 on the summer table; never a sealed jar, bag or under oil; keep for months only as salt-dried fish …
C7 amended Safety Dead chest freezer as first-winter cellar: motor and refrigerant pipes must be removed
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
T3 confirmed Safety Lye stored lidded, labelled, high shelf, never in a bottle that ever held a drink; children taught the sign
J7 amended Safety When the last canner gasket hardens canning is over; low-acid food is salted, smoked, dried, soured or cellared, never sealed (botulism)
W41 confirmed Rapeseed warmed to 90 to 110 °C (smells of toast, breaks between the fingers); cold-pressed under 45 °C gives about half; seed dried a day or two; wet seed foams
W53 amended Dough trough: log 500 to 600 × 1,200 mm, walls 18 to 22 mm (diagram 18 to 20), dried 4 to 6 months to about 14 % moisture, 12.5 h of work, 40 to 60 years of life, never …
F43 confirmed Beet 16–20 % sucrose, Sep–Nov, −760 humus, 3–5 yr gap, hand weeding hurdle, organic 0.3 % of EU, clamp frost
F53 confirmed Germination test 100 seeds 20 °C 7–10 d, fail <78–80 %; storage table 14 %/21 °C 200 d, 15 % 125 d, 17 % 20 d; Herrington halving; barn 95→88 % in 250 d; drying air …
F57 confirmed Elsholtz 1623 to 1688, Vom Garten-Baw 1667 (133 gives 1666); Reichart 1685 to 1775, Land- und Gartenschatz six volumes 1753 to 1774; Werder as Berlin's market garden; …
F58 confirmed Onion bulbs at 14.0 to 14.5 h daylength (late April at 52°N), needs 8 to 12 leaves by 21 June; from seed sown 15 March to 5 April: 140 to 160 days, bolting under 1 %, 1 …
F63 confirmed Kitchen garden for four: 25 beds of 12 m² = 300 m², 18 crops, 1,255 kg a year after a 35 % margin (15 storage, 12 pests, 8 trimming), 225 to 255 h (70 Feb to Apr, 85 May …
F70 partly confirmed Ellis-Roberts safe moisture and life in a sealed cellar jar at 8 to 12 °C: tomato 6 to 7 % 5 to 7 y, bean 9 to 11 % 3 to 5 y, pea 9 to 11 % 4 to 6 y, cabbage 5 to 6 % 4 …
O36 unresolved Cellar 2–4 °C, slatted shelves, Christmas to Easter; dried apple loses six sevenths
O47 confirmed Kräutertee to the 1950s; tisane bed 5 × 2 m; lime flowers June with bract; pine needles Nov–Mar; drying <40 °C dark; a_w <0.60; shelf life a year
A17 unresolved Kreuzberg pigs in the winter of 1946, courtyard and cellar pigs, black slaughter (Schwarzschlachtung) punishable by prison, the grandmother's street
A67 confirmed Sand pasture 1,800 to 2,800 kg DM/ha unimproved, 3,800 to 4,800 with plantain, chicory, trefoil, burnet; winter feeding 215 days; tree hay a third of a goat's and a …
B45 confirmed Casings: small intestine ~20 m, stripped, turned over a stick under water, scraped with the back of a knife, rinsed, salted, keeps a year, soak an hour; Krause (large …
B55 confirmed Storage: stoneware crock with lid in the cellar, tallow a year, lard 6–9 months, salt layer on top; enemies light, warmth, air, iron/copper; rancid = paint smell, not …
B60 confirmed Bark tanning: oak bark stripped in May, dried, pounded, 2–4 × hide weight over the tan; weakest liquor first (barkometer 1.006–1.010), stronger weekly; case hardening in …
E28 confirmed Three-year rotation K1/K2/K3, autumn draining through the outlet, harvest at the pit, bed frozen, dried and limed
E37 confirmed Hältern: 10–14 days unfed in clean cold water removes the mud taste (geosmin/MIB stored in fat), ~10 days
E46 unresolved Aalreuse of the Havel: ~1 m, 40–50 cm first hoop, two funnels, second 8–10 cm, thumb-width gaps; set on the bottom, mouth downstream in autumn, baited, lifted every …
E53 partly confirmed Smoke: drying, phenols (antiseptic and flavour), heat; keeping by salt, drying and cold
E58 amended Salt fish: lean species only, split, dry salt ¼–⅓ of weight 7–10 days cold, air-dried 2–3 weeks in cold dry months to > 50 % weight loss, keeps a year in a dry loft, …
C10 confirmed Storage temperatures: potato 4 °C, apple 1 to 3 °C, cabbage near 0 °C; cellar 0 to 4 °C at 80 to 95 % RH
C11 confirmed 7 m³ cellar, 0.85 m³ grain bin, 6.3 m³ smokehouse for a family's year
C15 unresolved The clamp is called a Miete in Brandenburg; a well-made clamp loses about one in ten
C16 amended Ethylene from apples makes potatoes sprout; apples on a shelf above the potato bin lose the potatoes by February
C19 amended Solar dryer runs at 40 to 50 (55) °C; forced-draught chimney design
C26 confirmed Thermometer-free cellar cues in Bench 1 (breath, wet stone, the hand test) are the book's own
M33 confirmed A Brandenburg sand cellar is cold enough and too dry for cheese; water carried down
D18 unresolved Gruit substitutes: 20 g dried yarrow and 10 g bog myrtle for 20 l; drink within a fortnight
D48 amended Chicory: root 30 to 50 cm, sow 1 cm deep April to May, rows 40 cm, thin to 15 cm, lift October; about 200 g dry root per square metre; roast at 180 °C 20 to 40 min to …
D49 unresolved Pine needles November to March, high in vitamin C, 15 min under a lid; linden flowers dried in June; blackberry leaves bruised and kept warm 2 to 6 weeks until black and …
T31 partly confirmed Pit fire: 50 cm deep, straw and dried dung packing, brushwood, turf or sheet-iron cover, pine as fuel, a day to burn and cool; expect ~half losses for a first batch
T50 confirmed Shrinkage bar 150 by 25 by 10 mm with 100 mm line, 5 to 8 mm drying shrinkage workable, over 9 mm wants a quarter grog; body 65 clay, 20 sharp sand, 15 grog; grog from …
T51 confirmed Wall thickness 6 to 8 mm plate (chapter's choice), 10 to 12 mm bowl or crock; drying 9 to 13 days
J16 partly confirmed 131's 60–80 acres (24–32 ha) per household of five rests on medieval yields: seed 1:4–1:5, 5–7 bushels/acre, 20–25 % seed, 20 % rodent loss, 10 % tax, 10 % tithe; gap to …
J19 unresolved Household year (own): field 1,500–2,000, kitchen ~1,100 (3 h/day), milking ~300 for three goats (twice daily over two lactations), wood 30–50, tools 156, pig 32, …