Cut up something nice from the farmers market (beets, mushrooms, peaches and don’t forget cucumbers). Throw the slices into a quart jar and cover them with cold or hot brine, or salt them, and ...

In a quart jar add 1 tablespoon pickling spice mix and the garlic cloves. Fill jar with vegetables cut into attractive shapes and sizes, leaving about 1½ inches of headspace.

To a sterilized 1-quart glass jar, add half of the tomato mixture and the cherry ­tomatoes. Top with as much of the remaining tomato mixture as will fit in the jar, then use a spoon to gently ...

Brent Hofacker Rich Shih, the ferment and koji authority behind the OurCookQuest blog, is a mechanical engineer by day and a ferment overlord by night. Between jars of lacto-ferments sits his ...

Making a Raw Pack To make a raw pack, fill the jars firmly with unheated sauerkraut and cover with juices. Process raw-packed pints for 20 minutes and quarts for 25 minutes in a boiling water bath.