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Kitchen Table Kibitzing September 13, 2026 Torshi Seer [1]

['Side Pocket', 'Chloris Creator', 'Blue Boomer']

Date: 2026-09-13  

Preservation

I make preserved lemons often. It’s easy. Clean jar. Wash and quarter lemons and add them to the jar, with salt. Press them down until the liquid level is above the lemons near the top. Cover and refrigerate for a month or more.

Similar technique for making sauerkraut. Shred a cabbage and massage with salt. Weight the cabbage in your container and allow brine to cover. Ferment at room temperature for a month or until sauerkraut is as strong as you wish. Then refrigerate.

rThese are the basics; more detail on line, of course. Or you could make Chinese thousand year eggs, which is more involved, requiring

. pu-erh tea

16 g. Kosher salt

14 g. food-grade sodium hydroxide lye

0.7 g. food-grade zinc oxide

which I’m sure everyone has handy. Maybe not.

But if you have time I would recommend the Torshi Seer. This was served to us at our recent dinner with our Iranian neighbor. It is pickled garlic, and it was delicious. It is served accompanying many foods, but I ate them straight. The garlic cloves are submerged in a combination of balsamic and red wine vinegar, and they are ready in…….5 years minimum. They turn dark red. She also served some 30 year Torshi Seer which was more like butter. Takes some long range planning and confidence to make, I would guess.

Speaking of confidence, I am going to make a few jars of the 5 year garlics. I’ll be 92. Will I have the strength to open the jar?

(This is a reprise of last week’s diary, which wouldn’t publish. The only addition is that our neighbor brought over a small jar of Torshi Seer garlics and I’ve been having some with my dinners. So good. Five years is a long wait.)

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