Fermented Garlic Scapes

Curly, fermented garlic scapes are something I ate for the first time on our Baltic adventure and, for me, it was love at first bite. They are wonderful on their own (the younger, thinner ones are tastiest), piled onto buttered rye bread or added to dishes — try them with the millet ‘risotto’.

Unless you grow your own hardneck garlic, scapes can be tricky to find: in their mid-summer season in the UK you can buy them from the Really Garlicky Compan