I have found this too. My efforts to dry a lot of purslane have been vindicated 😄

This is from an interesting article about using garden greens including marshmallows and other mallows, hollyhocks and lots of others.

https://foragerchef.com/common-mallow-plants-cheeseweed

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A 2-litre jar of #purslane, fermented with ginger, garlic and onion for 5 days, reduces to this - a much smaller jar of purslane and left-over brine for brine shots and soups etc.

I couldn't get the purslane to release enough brine to do a dry ferment, but it did release water over the 5 days. I suspected it would do this and adjusted salt levels to compensate.

It reduces as the stems soften a little and the purslane tangles around each other.

The purslane is still beautifully crunchy (I used grape vine leaves as a follower which may have helped).

Note for next time: Add some nori or kombu to the ferment.

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The air cooling guy has been and fixed that pipe that was gushing water. Hooray.

The fruit fly people have been and checked the garden for the third time - reporting no sightings of FF in the area.

I am soaking, snipping the tender parts, chopping in processor the purslane I picked this morning with onion and garlic, for the dehydrator.

There may be enough #purslane left over from this pic to also do a "dry" #ferment - massage the purslane with salt to get it to release its own juices to make the brine. I think it will work.

How is your day going?

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Bright and beautiful sights in the garden, large and small.

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Surreales Portrait …
Portulak-Blüte…

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