(Day 51 – 315 To Go) February 20, 2008
When I was at the rawluck last week, I met someone who sang the praises of rejuvelac, the liquid result of fermenting sprouting wheat berries. I have never tasted rejuvelac, but have been told that it tastes vaguely lemony and kind of fizzy. We’ll see. I started a batch of rejuvelac today.
I have yet to find a recipe for what to do with the fermented wheat berry sprouts AFTER the third batch of rejuvelac. If someone has a recipe, please post a link to it or post the recipe here. Here’s the instructions/recipe for rejuvelac:
Recipe for Rejuvelac
Ingredients:
Spring Wheat Berries (1c of grain per gallon of container)
Filtered Water
Equipment:
1/2 gallon or 1 gallon wide mouth jar
Cheese cloth
Rubber band
Fill a spouting jar 1/4 full with wheat berries. If you are using a Mason jar, cover the opening with cheese cloth and wrap a rubber band around it to hold the cheese cloth in place. Fill the jar with filtered water and let sit overnight (at least 8 hours). Drain the berries, then rinse and drain the berries with filtered water twice. Place the jar upside down, but tilted slightly to let air in. I placed my jar in a small Pyrex bowl, which held it at a 45 degree angle.
Rinse the wheat berries twice daily with filtered water. After a couple of days you should see them begin to sprout. Once you see the sprouting take hold, rinse and drain them once more, thoroughly, then fill the jar to the top. Let the sprouts soak for two days. The berries will begin to ferment and the water will transform into rejuvelac.
Pour off the liquid into a separate container and refrigerate. You can do this two more times, but only let the sprouts soak for one day each additional batch.
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
If you use a half-gallon jar, you should halve the recipe, i.e, instead of 1 C of wheat berries, you should use 1/2 C.
As far as what to do with the “chaff” left over after you have made rejuvelac, Sproutman suggests, in The Kitchen Garden Cookbook, dehydrating it. I did not get what he expects to be done with it after it is dehydrated.
I’ve usually tossed it, but, this time, I am going to combine it in a cracker recipe.
In my searchings through the raw blogs I found a few rejuvelac addicts who use the grain in crackers. That’s what I’ll try next.