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Title: Definitely not preserving traditions
Review: I was aggravated I even paid for this book. It has very little to do with actual pickling and fermentation. Most of the recipes are simple modern day pour vinegar over your food type of pickles rather than actual lactic acid fermentation. Traditional recipes involved fermentation and had the added benefit of probiotic content. This book modernizes a lot of recipes and destroys that added benefit. The sauerkraut recipe even says to only let it sit for one day. That wouldn't even begin to be long enough for making sauerkraut. I showed this book to my grandma and she was very disappointed as was I. The traditions have definitely been lost with this book.
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