Good morning! I stirred my sweet potato soda this morning!
Day 73
If you can see in the pictures I took, at the top of the containers, there are bubbles, which I think indicates that the sweet potato soda is alive and actively fermenting. The sweet potato soda I have made is not exactly to recipe, because I did omit a few things to make the soda vegan. The recipe from
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon calls for the use of eggs, egg shells, and whey. Although I eat omnivorously, I would still like to share some of my creations with people whom eat
differently. I would describe the flavor of sweet potato soda as kind of a mildy sour mulled spice drink. It does use some of the typical winter holiday spices, like nutmeg, cinnamon, and lemon rind, which is why I say it has a winter holiday taste to it. I'm not sure if it would turn into a "vodka" if fermented for longer; I have not tried that yet. I could let one of my two batches go for longer than three days and see what happens.
I'm also soaking some beans for three days, and then, I am planning to cook them in a slow cooker for a day.
I do not know why my videos suddenly have a weird sound overtone to them; if I had to guess it is probably how old my phone is and the wear and tear its been through. Here's some views I like from the Lab and Basecamp.
These are a couple views from the Lab.
These are a couple views from Basecamp.
We did a lot of log peeling today.
Here are more pictures of log peeling.
This is
Gert hanging out with some of her kittens!
We tried out some larger gin poles to see how they would work.
At the moment, this is not looking like a good idea, because of the leverage of trying to lift something heavy from so far away.
