Ferns grow in forests around the world. Their leaves are very beautiful, feathery, and form thickets. However, beauty is not the only virtue of the fern. This plant is also used in cooking. Fresh leaves of ostrich and bracken are usually used for food.
It is necessary
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- Fern
- water
- salt
- glass jars or an enamel container.
Instructions
Step 1
Treat the fern before preparing it for pickling. Your task is to completely remove brown scales that may remain in the coiled spirals. These scales are not digested and can irritate the stomach lining. To do this, you need to take a sufficiently large amount of salt water and boil fern shoots in it. The ostrich perch needs to be boiled for about 5 minutes, the bracken is cooked for about 15 minutes after boiling. Then drain the water and rinse the shoots several times in running water.
Step 2
Place the fern boiled in this way tightly in jars, previously sterilized with steam. Then fill with boiling saline solution (at the rate of 15 g per 1 liter), roll up the lids. After that, wrap the overturned cans in a blanket and leave them to cool completely. The fern harvested in this way can be stored for a long time at any temperature.
Step 3
There is also another way of salting - the so-called dry method. Take fresh fern sprouts and place in an enamel bowl or glass jar in layers, alternating layers with salt. It is best to use coarse salt. Take the following proportions of salt and fern: 3-4 kilograms of salt per 10 kg of fern.
Step 4
Then put a plate on top of the fern and put oppression (you can use a jar of water). One of the important conditions for this salting is the cool air temperature in the room where the container with the fern will stand.
Step 5
After 2-3 weeks, drain the juice and transfer the semi-finished fern to glass jars, compact the shoots, add more salt (only now at the rate of 2 kg per 10 kg of fern) and close the jars with plastic lids, you do not need to roll them up. Place the jars in your cellar or refrigerator. The fern will be salted in a few weeks and will be ready to eat.
