The Amish Secret to Preserving Lemons for YEARS – Just Salt & Water!
The Amish have been using simple, natural methods to preserve food for generations—no electricity, no refrigeration, just time-tested techniques. One of their best-kept secrets? Salt-preserved lemons. 🍋✨
By layering fresh lemons with salt and letting nature do the work, they create a tangy, probiotic-rich ingredient that lasts for months! This ancient fermentation method enhances flavor while keeping lemons fresh without modern storage.
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Been doing it in Italy for 100s of years.
Salty lemon? What is it use for after all that salt?
No to much salt.
The salt is also good for their high blood pressure 👍
We need more information from the Amish. Lifestyle and all points of life.
The Armish treat their horses like shit 😢
if you live near the Amish there is horse shit all over the roads. not being negative, I just used to live near the Amish and that memory always make me laugh. great neighbors!
The Amish? Africans have been doing this for centuries.
I gave done this yes so good
Need this information😊
Lemon is one of the simplest pickle you can make. This is how we do it. Cut, salt, soak and then sundry them. Then add chili powder and turmeric. Keep them in a jar with lid closed. Keep it in hot sun. In few days pickle is ready. Eat with rice or as a chutney with samosa or idli or Dosa.
I don't know who long we have been doing this. Everything we do seem ancient 😂
Thank you 🙏🏼 yes, I will do this 👍🏼
My challenge will be in finding homegrown organic non-gmo lemons 🤔 I expect this will work for limes as well(?)
The amish is our salvation ounce the sheet* hits the fan. They will havevthe knowledge.
I have been preserving lemons this way for years. They get very soft, and most people discard everything but the skin. As I use the skin, I save the "innards"in a different jar to add flavor where I don't need the bits of skin to make something beautiful, such as a blender sauce.
Do you have to "burp" the jars like with some other foods that ferment?
I have many good friends that are Amish very smart and wonder people .
Ancient … lol
They abuse their animal's. And do not use vets.to care for the wounds on their horses
All of the abused horses I have seen are from Amish farms.
The Amish are being punished in Pa.
Why even preserve them? What would you be using preserved lemons for anyway? The ONLY things I'd use lemons for would be lemonade, which you'd want to be sweet, not salty; same for any dessert; and as a garnish …maybe, for fish! They're SOUR! YUCK!😬
My family did this for generations.
I’m doing it today, I’ll let you know how it turns out
YES
We Did, The Same, in British Guiana, Now 🇬🇾, and I still Believe, It's The Best way To Do Things!
We also made Lime Pepper Sauce, and It's DELICIOUS!
No i don’t want to eat salty lemons
But it doesn't taste like FRESH 😢
After the process how long does it take to eat it?
But wont they taste salty ? What if you want sweet lemonade ? Please explain.
Yes I would try this.
Oh yeah!!
Just salty as hell,