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Instant Pot Pork-Foot Aspic (Kholodets)
This recipe uses three stages: blanching, pressure-cooking, and final conditioning. Blanching removes odors and stray proteins, pressure-cooking extracts gelatin from the pork feet, and final conditioning enriches the broth with spices while keeping their flavors potent and preventing the vegetables from overcooking. Yield 850 g (~2lb) of pig feet produces about three shallow containers.Total yield:…
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Slavic-Style Pickled Tomatoes
Batch Size Two 2-quart jars. These jars fit together in the large heating pot. Approximately one full 1.7-liter kettle of boiling water is enough to fill the spaces around the tomatoes. Ingredients Per 2-Quart Jar Brine for Two Jars Procedure Technical Notes Chemistry “Sterilization” is used here in the traditional household sense. The three heating…
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Grizzly lake hiking trip plan
Planning the grizzly lake trip. Heard about it during the Kings mountain art Fair and it looks like interesting destination to go. Very challenging, but it should not be scary