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Choc-embouche

December 31, 2012 allansuddaby 2 Comments

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

-Tennyson

Happy New Year from Lisa and Allan.

A croquembouche made with chocolate instead of caramel... a chocembouche.

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Pâté grandmère. Made with pork shoulder and be Pâté grandmère.  Made with pork shoulder and beef liver from @naturesgreenacres.  Red sauerkraut, bread and butter pickles, raw onion, @bonneviebc sourdough.
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Cider/fermentation peeps! Any experience with thi Cider/fermentation peeps!  Any experience with this type of yeast growth on hard cider?  It forms pretty reliably in my cellar if an airlock dries up or a screw cap gallon jug isn't filled completely.

When I first saw it many years ago it reminded me of flor yeast.  I know it probably can't actually be flor, but it sure looks like it.  Almost like fine-textured curdled milk.

I have aged some ciders in contact with this yeast, and maybe it's the power of suggestion, but I swear the cider develops some very sherry-like or vin jaune-like characteristics.  A dramatic reduction in acidity, production of aldehydes and oxidative notes.  It ages remarkably well.  The bottle above was pressed in 2010.

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