Amara Small Sour 2026-11-05T17:49:00Z tag:smallsour.ivus.mom,2026-10-20:/ Learning pickling the long way round. Batch 32 tag:smallsour.ivus.mom,2026-11-05:/p/batch-32/ 2026-11-05T17:49:00Z I had a good part of the day free yesterday, so I spent it salting the cabbage. It's the kind of thing you only learn by packing the crock. The cellar shelf tag:smallsour.ivus.mom,2026-10-29:/p/the-cellar-shelf/ 2026-10-29T10:15:00Z This is the fourth time I've written about the cabbage, and probably not the last. If there's a pattern, it's that the scoby is always the last thing to cooperate. October, mostly making a new batch of kimchi tag:smallsour.ivus.mom,2026-10-20:/p/october-mostly-making-a-new-batch-of-kimchi/ 2026-10-20T09:13:00Z One evening this week Agnes came round, and we ended up skimming the brine. Somewhere around 20 °C it started to make sense.