In a perfect world, there's no need to add a starter-culture when creating lacto-fermented organic or biodynamic vegetables in the Pickl-It hermetic (airtight) system.  

But we live in an increasingly imperfect world.  For the past year, we have experimented with Caldwell's Starter Culture, discovering numerous advantages....

Unlike other Christmas seasons, when I spent days – even weeks – creating batches of sugary-cookies which have no redeeming value, this recipe is one of our new Christmas traditions, easily-created by adding already-fermented, Pickl-It Cranberry Relish.

We’ve created a number of new holiday food-traditions which harken back to traditions and recipes more common to our ancestors of old, more than modern “traditions”. Take a look at how Pickl-It Cranberry Orange & Apple Relish can be used to create a tasty Pickl-It Cranberry Granola Gems.

While my mother and aunts created sugar-rich cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, I much preferred my grandmother’s traditional Swedish recipe, originally made by her great-grandmother who used raw lingonberries.

My great-grandmother regularly spread creamed honey on her morning toast. Beekeeper’s, for thousands of years, considered creamed honey to be the preferred storage method for the year’s honey harvest. Learn how to make your own using a Pickl-It!