{"id":5437,"date":"2013-07-09T13:02:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2013-07-09T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:02:44","slug":"fermented-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5437","title":{"rendered":"Fermented onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/S-onions-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/S-onions-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-onions-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken was away for an unexpectedly long time in June to visit his parents and also traveling to do publicity appearances for his book. Consequently the garden got a bit out of hand, and a surplus built up. In particular there was a surplus of onions, and onions, being sacred, are much too good to waste. So what to do?<\/p>\n<p>Ferment them.<\/p>\n<p>Though all my fermenting experience is with sauerkraut, pretty much any kind of vegetable can be fermented if you know the process. The process isn&#8217;t complex: Put the vegetables, appropriately sliced or shredded, into a crock and use the right amount of salt or brine.<\/p>\n<p>As with sauerkraut,  the prep work is a huge chore. I peeled about 30 pounds of onions and cut them into wedges. I put them in the crock and covered them with brine made from Celtic sea salt (about 3 tablespoons of salt per quart of water). In about three weeks we&#8217;ll see how they taste.<\/p>\n<p>These are sweet and mild Georgia-style onions, and they&#8217;re organic, like everything grown at the abbey. To my surprise, peeling them and cutting them didn&#8217;t even provoke any onion tears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/S-onions-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/S-onions-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-onions-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken was away for an unexpectedly long time in June to visit his parents and also traveling to do publicity appearances for his book. Consequently the garden got a bit out of hand, and a surplus built up. In particular there was a surplus of onions, and onions, being sacred, are much too good to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fermented onions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}