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Prepared horseradish relish in a ceramic bowl with fresh root

Prepared horseradish

Prepared horseradish is freshly grated horseradish root mixed with vinegar and salt. This refrigerated relish holds the root’s sharp, nasal pungency in a spoonable form.

Bavaria
Soft ivory Altai aarchi beside irregular golden-brown smoked kurut pieces, one broken to show its pale interior.

Aarchi and kurut (Altai dried curd)

A two-stage Altai dairy preparation: sour chegen is heated into soft aarchi, then portions are drained, pressed and traditionally smoked into firm kurut.

Altai Republic
Dairy
Sri Lankan achcharu of shallots, carrots, green chillies and beans in a ceramic bowl.

Achcharu

Achcharu is a family of Sri Lankan vinegar pickles made with mixed vegetables or seasonal fruit and a piquant spice dressing. This version is a quick, refrigerated, non-fermented mixed-vegetable pickle.

Sri Lanka
A bowl of firm fermented dill pickles and cucumber spears with dill seed.

Fermented dill pickles

Trimmed cucumbers layered with dill and covered with a salt brine containing 5% vinegar, weighted and fermented three to six weeks.

United States · Traditional method
· Vegetables
A fresh, crumbly white queso fresco wheel with one wedge cut on a pale ceramic plate.
High risk

Cultured queso fresco

Cultured buttermilk, pasteurized milk, vinegar and rennet make this soft, crumbly queso fresco by a New Mexico home method adapted from Washington’s Abuela Project.

Yakima County, Washington · Modern adaptation
· Dairy
Fresh ivory mozzarella-style curd, hand-shaped into a glossy ball with torn pieces in a little whey.
Elevated risk

Microwave-stretched mozzarella-style curd

A creator sets raw cow’s milk with vinegar, presses the hot curd, warms it in short microwave intervals, then stretches it and cools it in water and ice.

Modern method
· Dairy
Illustrative fresh mozzarella-style curd shaped as a smooth white ball and cooling in water.
Elevated risk

Salted-whey mozzarella-style curd

A Ukrainian creator sets fresh cow’s milk with vinegar, squeezes the curd, warms it in salted whey, then stretches it and cools it in water.

Modern method
· Dairy
A plain, softly set bowl of tarag, Mongolian cultured milk, shown without toppings.

Tarag (Mongolian yoghurt)

Tarag is a traditional Mongolian fermented milk made by culturing heated cow, yak, sheep or goat milk with a retained starter into a sour, softly set or drinkable yoghurt.

Mongolia · Traditional method
· Dairy
Illustrative red oncom cake from pressed soy pulp, with an orange-red Neurospora-colored surface and pale okara interior; generalized image of the published experimental formulation, not a verified batch.
Elevated risk

Red oncom from okara with Neurospora starter

Red oncom is a West Javanese cake fermented from pressed soy pulp with a Neurospora starter, a little tapioca starch and vinegar. It is a different food from black oncom, made on another substrate with another mould.

West Java, Indonesia · Modern method
· Legumes and seeds
A clear glass cruet of deep amber-red akazu beside a small dish of aged sake lees and a shallow bowl of the vinegar.

Akazu (red sake-lees vinegar)

Japanese reddish-brown vinegar from sake lees matured about three years, turned to vinegar by acetic bacteria; the vinegar of Handa and Edomae sushi rice.

Handa · Traditional method
· Condiments
A cloth-covered jar and a clear bottle of homemade spirit vinegar on a wooden kitchen counter.

Ättika

A Swedish-style spirit vinegar made by fermenting neutral alcohol with live vinegar bacteria, with a separate guide to commercial ättika strengths.

Sweden · Traditional method
· Condiments
A small glass cruet and tasting bowl of pale-yellow birch sap vinegar on a wooden table with birch bark nearby.

Birch sap vinegar

Vinegar from spring birch sap fermented to alcohol and then acetic acid, usually with added sugar or honey because the sap is so dilute; made in Sweden and described in older eastern European accounts.

Sweden · Modern adaptation
· Condiments