Escabeche
Fried or cooked food covered in a vinegar-based preparation, the heat and the externally supplied acid working together; a family of methods whose early form is a Roman instruction for treating fried fish with hot vinegar.
Recipes
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Jiuniang (sweet fermented glutinous rice)
Chinese sweet fermented glutinous rice: steamed rice and a mixed jiuqu starter, where mould enzymes release sugar and yeast makes a little alcohol, eaten with its sweet liquid.
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Ogi and akamu, fermented cereal slurry
Ogi or akamu is a wet fermented cereal preparation documented in Nigeria and Benin. Grain or maize starch is steeped, milled or sieved, then fermented by process-specific routes; evidence supports no universal method or safety limit.
Nukazuke cucumber in a rice-bran bed
Cucumber ferments in a maintained rice-bran bed seeded through repeated vegetable scrap picklings; the record includes the starter-bed method.
Berenjena de Almagro
A protected aubergine preserve from Ciudad Real in Spain: tender fruit of the local Dealmagro variety, cooked briefly and then fermented in a vinegared, paprika-seasoned dressing.
Miso dengaku glaze
A sweet-salty Japanese glaze of miso, mirin, sake and sugar, warmed until thick and spread on grilled tofu, eggplant, daikon or konnyaku. Regional versions in Aichi use red miso and dashi.
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Kitoza
A documentary account of Malagasy salted meat strips, commonly dried, smoked or both; it does not provide a validated home-preservation recipe.
Tomato and onion smoor
A thick South African tomato-and-onion relish simmered slowly and served warm with boerewors, pap or bread.
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Kaya
Kaya is a sweet Malay-rooted spread of eggs, coconut milk and sugar, scented with pandan and stirred over gentle heat until it thickens. In Singapore it is the filling of kaya toast.
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Tinapa
Filipino smoked fish, most often scad, sardinella or milkfish, brined and smoked, and eaten whole or flaked into other dishes.
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Bakalar na bijelo
An Istrian festive spread of cooked stockfish beaten with olive oil and garlic until pale and cohesive, here bulked out with hand-mashed floury potato.
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Dried charales (charales secos)
Small central-Mexican lake silversides, Chirostoma spp., dried whole and sometimes salted, then fried, roasted or simmered into Lenten tortitas and snacks.
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Fraser Canyon wind-dried salmon
Salmon opened, scored and hung on roofed racks in the dry canyon winds of the Fraser River: slhíts'es in Stó:lō documentation, sts'wan in St'át'imc records.
Cappero di Pantelleria
A protected Sicilian product: unopened caper buds from the island of Pantelleria, dry-salted with sea salt in a two-stage process that encourages lactic fermentation.
Faluche of Northern France
A pale, softly baked, low-profile bread associated with northern France and Tournai. This source-specific household method makes four large faluches; it differs from older accounts of leftover bread dough baked during communal bread baking.
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Norwegian pinnekjøtt
Norwegian Christmas lamb ribs, salted, matured and dried, then soaked and steamed over birch twigs. Smoked and unsmoked versions are both made.
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Newfoundland dried salt cod
Atlantic cod split, salted and dried on raised flakes along the Newfoundland and Labrador shore, manufactured ashore for markets across the Atlantic.
Stottie cake
A North East England yeast bread baked as flat round cakes. Terence Laybourne's Newcastle home recipe makes twelve rounds about 1 inch thick and serves them warm.
Ají de maní
A spicy peanut hot sauce from the Popayán and Cauca region of Colombia, traditionally served with pipián empanadas and tamales.
Ají criollo
A fresh, uncooked Ecuadorian table sauce of hot pepper, cilantro, garlic and lime, served with most everyday dishes.
Roosterkoek (South African braai bread)
Roosterkoek is a small yeast-raised South African bread cooked over gentle braai coals. This enriched dough rises twice and is turned on the grid until browned and cooked through.
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Narezushi
A documentary account of Japanese narezushi, a family of salted-fish and rice ferments. This entry preserves the East Kishu (Mie) source’s identity and regional context without providing a household preparation method.
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Mustard-leaf gundruk (Brassica juncea)
Mustard leaves wilted, bruised and packed tight into an earthenware vessel to sour without salt, then sun-dried into dark tangled pieces that carry Himalayan meals through the year.
Mucor-type douchi
A Chinese fermented soybean condiment from Chongqing and Sichuan, made by growing Mucor-type mould on cooked beans, then salting and maturing them into dark, savoury, soft beans with a concentrated aroma.
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Koikuchi soy sauce
Japan's standard all-purpose soy sauce: soybeans and wheat grown over with koji mould, brined, fermented for months, pressed and usually heated into a reddish-brown, savoury liquid.
Mole poblano
A complex Mexican sauce from Puebla of dried chiles, nuts, seeds, spices and often chocolate, roasted, ground and simmered for a long time. Chocolate is one component, not its definition.
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Tokoroten (Japanese Seaweed Jelly)
A Japanese jelly made by boiling agar-rich red seaweed, straining the extract and letting it set, then pressing it into strands served with vinegar-soy sauce or sweet syrup.
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Salted-dried pirarucu (manta)
Arapaima gigas split into broad mantas, salted, matured for days and dried into the sheets that travel Amazonian river markets as bacalhau da Amazônia.
Milcao
Chiloé potato cakes combine cooked mashed potatoes with drained raw grated potato; this measured version is fried and yields 20.
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Ackee and saltfish
Jamaica's best-known dish: salt-cured cod desalted and flaked, then folded through ackee arils with onion, tomato, sweet pepper, thyme and Scotch bonnet.
Shoreek (Egyptian sweet rolls)
Egyptian sweet wheat rolls shaped into coils or braids, enriched with milk, egg and fat and eaten at breakfast, with tea or milk, and at family celebrations.
Palli pachadi
A moist Andhra peanut chutney: roasted groundnuts ground with fried dried chillies and tamarind, folded into a roasted tomato-and-spice mix with raw onion, and eaten with khichdi, attu or idli.
Noon barbari
A yeast-raised Iranian flatbread with a crisp roomal-glazed crust, long grooves and a soft interior.
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Gosh-naan
Gosh-naan is a Uyghur meat-filled bread in one family recipe: lamb, onion and cumin are sealed in yeast dough, pan-cooked, and checked at a safe centre temperature.
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Carquín dried anchoveta
Anchoveta salted, drained of sanguaza and sun-dried on sand or stones at Caleta de Carquín, a technique declared part of Peru's cultural heritage in 2016.
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Firi firi (Tahitian coconut doughnuts)
Firi firi is a yeast-raised coconut doughnut piped into long pieces and deep-fried at 170°C, traditionally eaten for breakfast or dessert in Tahiti.
Boerie roll
A South African boerie roll puts fully cooked boerewors in a soft bread roll and tops it with warm tomato-and-onion smoor.
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Welsh Laverbread
Welsh laverbread is hand-gathered purple laver slowly cooked to a dark green-black paste, eaten with oatmeal, bacon and cockles or on toast.
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Pipsi
Arctic char opened, scored and air-dried in the Canadian Arctic: concentrated, chewy country food recorded as pipsi in Nunavut and pitsik in Nunavik.
Tilachi chutney
A Maharashtrian dry chutney of slowly roasted sesame and coconut ground fine with garlic, chilli powder, cumin, tamarind and sugar, kept in a bottle and eaten as a winter side.
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Green olives lye-treated
Green olives debittered in a sodium hydroxide solution, then rinsed repeatedly and held in brine, by the University of California's published home-pickling method.
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Marcha
An ethnographic record of marcha (murcha), a dry starter cake used in Eastern Himalayan cereal fermentations. This page documents source-specific community knowledge and is not a recipe for making or storing starter.
Mame-koji
Japanese soybean koji: steamed soybeans, loose or formed into balls, grown over with Aspergillus mould to make the enzymes for mame-miso, tamari and regional soybean condiments.
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Mahewu from maize porridge and sprouted grain
A documentary account of Zimbabwean mahewu and one producer's formula. Its quantities exceed the stated vessels, and research does not validate it as a safe home method.
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Lonzino
Documentary account of Italian regional cured-loin traditions, including Tuscan and Marche variations; no home-cure instructions are provided because the published professional methods lack validated safety controls.
Långfil and tettemelk
Långfil and tettemelk are traditional Swedish and Norwegian cultured milks with a mild sour taste and a stretchy texture produced by ropy lactic acid bacteria.
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Khurunga (Buryat fermented milk)
Khurunga is a traditional Buryat fermented milk made with a kept mixed bacteria-and-yeast starter, giving a sour, lightly alcoholic and often fizzy drink that is also the base for milk spirit and curds.
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Kocho
Ethiopia's fermented enset staple: the scraped leaf sheaths and pounded corm of Ensete ventricosum packed into a leaf-lined pit, where lactic fermentation turns them into a sour mass that keeps and is later baked as flatbread.
Kkakdugi
A radish kimchi cut into cubes and seasoned with gochugaru, fish sauce, garlic and ginger, eaten fresh or fermented a few days at room temperature.
Pesto Genovese
Pesto Genovese is a Ligurian uncooked basil sauce pounded with garlic, pine nuts, salt, hard cheeses and olive oil, traditionally made in a mortar.