Since we’ve given up drinking alcohol but still love to
ferment we’ve turned our attention to Kombucha.
In reading about it I found that some ancient Chinese referred to it as “the
tea of immortality,” so, who knows. I
hope it means health and vitality to the people who drink it. But it could also be referring to the scoby
(short for symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) or mother needed to start
the fermentation process. Once you get a
good scoby growing apparently they take on a life of their own.
But anyway, kombucha is a sweet fermented tea that
reproduces itself. Thought to have
originated in China, others believe it has its origins in the tea meccas of
Japan or India. It’s been given credit
for saving the life of Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s life and
more recently, the Russians who lived through the Chernobyl catastrophy in the late
80’s. Many AIDS and cancer
survivors drink it. So we’re giving it a try and really enjoying it..
After we looked around and couldn’t find someone to get a
scoby from we started one from scratch.
Now that we have our scoby growing I found a kombucha exchange at www.kombu.de where scoby is available for just
the shipping costs. Oh well, rookie
mistake. We’re having fun with it and
will provide progress reports.
Our chemo holiday ends next week so keep us in your
prayers. Happy Weekend!
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| Kombucha quietly brewing |
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