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Taught by Rachel de Thample
Next Level Fermentation
Course overview
River Cottage's fermenting expert teaches you how to ferment food and drinks at home to create delicious fermented flavours.
If you’ve already mastered kimchi and kraut or have completed her Fermenting for Taste and Health and are hungry for more fabulous ferments, Rachel de Thample’s Next Level Fermentation Course is the ideal way to up your repertoire.
On this more advanced course, you’ll learn how to transform pulses into homemade miso, local honey into mead (an ancient style of honey wine), apple scraps into apple cider vinegar, cream into cultured butter.
You’ll also learn how to start making your own yogurt with no fancy kit and create easy-to-digest vegan-friendly cheese.
This extensive course will give you the confidence and skill to fill your kitchen with tastebud-tingling ferments but beyond the making, you’ll also learn more about how the science of fermentation as well as the health benefits.
You'll learn:
- how to ferment food including grains, pulses, nuts, dairy, fruit and honey
- recipes for dosas, egg-free omelette, ginger beer, mead, fermented cheese, homemade yoghurt and apple cider vinegar
- creating your own fermented recipes
- how fermented foods can help your digestive system
The course includes:
- 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Rachel de Thample and River Cottage
- lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- downloadable lesson notes
- practical fermenting assignments and recipes (with tutor feedback available)
- access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
- small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas
Independent Cookery Schools Association approved
This course has been approved by the Independent Cookery Schools Association (ICSA), recognising the highest standards of training.
Time to complete the fermentation course:
Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 14 hours 5 minutes to complete including:
- Video lessons: 2 hours 5 minutes in total
- Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
- Your gut health recipe assignments: at least 2 hours per lesson
- Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
- Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson
You'll need:
Your lesson notes will include the full details of the ingredients you'll need, but you will be making fermented food and drinks, so you'll need standard kitchen equipment.
Ready to get started?
Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Rachel on your fermenting assignments.
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Lesson summary
Fermenting Grains and Pulses
Pulses and grains can tax your digestive system but the simple art of fermenting them helps transforms them, not only making them easier to digest, but also, more delicious.
We’ll make dosas with English grains, a Spanish-style omelette with fermented yellow split peas (the perfect vegan egg substitute) and homemade miso with locally-grown pulses.
Fermenting nuts and dairy
Learn how to whiz nuts into delicious, easy-to-digest nut cheeses, batches of kombucha-cultured creme fraiche (which you can churn into butter) and an incredibly easy homemade yogurt using a thermos.
Fermenting fruit
Turn your apple scraps into a stunning homemade apple cider vinegar (learning about acetic acid).
Learn how to ferment fruit with honey by making a honey-fermented hedgerow jams, learn how to ferment fruit with salt by making umboshi damons and preserved lemons and more.
Mead and ginger beer
Rachel will show you how to transform local honey and hedgerow fruit into a stunning ancient wine called black mead.
You’ll also learn how to make your own ginger beer starter and then give your brew a seasonal spin, such as rhubarb & rose ginger beer.
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