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Burakovyi kvas (fermented beet juice)

Yield: 10 Servings

Ingredients:

• 3 lb Beets
• 3 tb Coarse Rock Salt; Kosher Not -Table Due To Additives In -It.
• 1 sl Sourdough Bread
• 2 qt ;Water Up To 3 Maybe Needed
• 1 ;Square Cheesecloth And -String
• 1 ga ;Glass Jar Or Stone Crock
• 4 qt ;Jars OR
• 8 pt ;Jars

Instructions:

Scrub beets pare and cut into quarters. Place in a clean jar or crock and sprinkle with the salt. Boil the water and pour into the jar. Cook add the bread to aid in the fermentation cover with the cheesecloth and tie with the string. Set in a cool place to ferment for about 1 week. (Do not do this in hot humid weather; it will decompose not sour.) Remove any mold as it appears. Flavor develops in 1 to 2 weeks. Remove the bread mold and cheesecloth. Taste. It should be sourish but mild not brackish. Pour into clean dry jars and cover keeping it refrigerate until ready to use. It will keep well in the refrigerator.

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