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Re: Kefir d' acqua recipes

  • Subject: Re: Kefir d' acqua recipes
  • Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 14:12:49 -0700
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Dominic,
I received a recipe from someone in Germany but have not yet tried it out.

1 dry fig, cut-in several times with a knife
2 teabags of fruit tea (hibiscus/rosehip)
1 teabag black or green tea
70 gram sugar (or less)
1 liter water (or 1/4 l water and a 0.75 l bottle of mineral water (the
carbonite speeds up the process)
ca 6 tablespoons kefir grains.
Dissolve the sugar in 1/4 liter of water. Full up with mineral water. Add kefir
grains. Hang in the teabags, add the fig. Cover dish and let ferment for 48
hours.
A very good addition: elder blossoms (flowers of elderberries).
When the elderberries are in bloom I am going to try this out.
Regards, Eva

"Dominic A." wrote:

Hi folks

Just wanted to ask if any folks here making water-kefir that they enjoy
making, if they wished to contribute their recipe. I would like to include
as many types of recipes in the recipe section I am currently working on.
This would be added to the files section at K_m.

Today I made my water-kefir (kefir d' acqua) using this recipe.

500 ml (2 cups) water.
1 tbsp sugar.
1 tbsp malt extract (maltose).
1 tsp blackstrap molasses.
1 cup freshly well-bruised "Uva fragola" grapes ("strawberry grapes" which
are very similar to the "Concord" grape of the US).
Fresh corn silk from one organically grown cob of corn (great as a kidney
tonic and cleanser).
1 tbls of marijuana (only kidding folx...)... but.... if any one out there
is having chemo therapy, then if they are in a particular country or state
that permits the use of Cannabis sativa for medical purposed only e.g. to
reduce/eliminate some side effex due to chemo therapy, then please try and
NOT SMOKE this herb. This way you are taking in carcinogens. Instead use it
in tea form.

Or I suggest a similar recipe as "kefir d' yerba-munchies" [kefir made from
the munchies-herb]) above.

There you go I just broke the "moral" law so go a-head and "e" bust my
"e"-words. It's worth it if it helps someone out there.

Regards
Dominic

A Psychiatrist once asked me "do you see yourself as being a martyr"
I answered him with this question : "what dose being a martyr mean to you
doc"
The reason I asked him this was because at that time, I didn't know what the
word "martyr" actually meant (I was only two years old).

I'm that guy that woke you up when you fell unconscious at that bus stop, by
pressing my fingers in a certain spot in your ears (while others were just
standing paralyzed by their own shock-making mechanism).

I'm also that guy that you called "Bimbo" to try and offend, and I answered
you with a "wow!.. I adored Bimbo the elephant, thanx for the honour".

Hi

Ah!! I love this I love this.

Just today I was having a discussion about how concentrated sugars destroy
bacteria (through induced osmotic pressure).
This discussion took place with a good old friend Michael, who's wife was
the very person who gave me my first batch of kefir grains back in 1978.
Michael's retired now, but use to work for the CSIRO researching mainly
into
sheep rumen and feeding etc. So he knows his stuff good ol Micheal.

It's so nice to talk to people who are willing to share their well-earned
know-how with others who are interested or seeking.

Thanks to all of you here that have and do for fill their sharing duties
duty-free...
Dominic



I would presume that steviosine would act in a differnet way as an
antimicrobial to sugars though?

Concentrated sugars are antimicrobial because of the high osmotic
pressure
they induce. Part of the reason that honey is such a great antimicrobial
agent (or course honey also has enzymes and hydrogen peroxide and
others).

Here's the abstracts if you want to look further into it.....actually
I'm
in a hurry and I can't find all of them....

______________


Antimicrobial Action

The ability of stevia to inhibit the growth and reproduction of bacteria
and other infectious organisms is important in at least two respects.
First, it may help explain why users of stevia-enhanced products report
a
lower incidence of colds and flus, and second, it has fostered the
invention of a number of mouthwash and tooth paste products. Research
clearly shows that Streptococcus mutans, Pseudomonas aeruginos, Proteus
vulgaris and other microbes do not thrive in the presence of the
non-nutritive stevia constituents.24 This fact, combined with the
naturally
sweet flavor of the herb, makes it a suitable ingredient for mouth
washes
and for tooth pastes.25 The patent literature contains many applications
for these kinds of stevia-based products. Stevia has even been shown to
lower the incidence of dental caries.

24. Yabu, M., et.al., "Studies on stevioside, natural, sweetener."
Hiroshima Daigaku Shigaku Tasshi, 9(1), 12-17, 1977.


_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Microbiol Immunol 1997;41(12):1005-9

Bactericidal activity of a fermented hot-water extract from Stevia
rebaudiana Bertoni towards enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7
and
other food-borne pathogenic bacteria.

Tomita T, Sato N, Arai T, Shiraishi H, Sato M, Takeuchi M, Kamio Y

Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
tomita

A fermented aqueous extract from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni showed strong
bactericidal activity towards a wide range of food-borne pathogenic
bacteria including enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli 0157:H7. The
colony-forming ability of the food-borne pathogenic bacteria tested so
far
was reduced to < 10(-7) when exposed to > or = 40% (v/v) solutions of
the
fermented extract at 37 C for 2 hr. Secretion of verocytotoxin 1 and 2
by
enterohemorrhagic E. coli was also diminished by fermented extract at a
concentration of > or = 10% (v/v). In contrast, the fermented extract
did
not significantly kill Bifidobacteria or Lactobacilli. The active
principle(s) of the fermented Stevia extract were bactericidal under
acidic
conditions.




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