A Garlic Scape and Sour

Many years ago, perhaps nearing 15 or so, we used to raise garlic every year in a small raised bed garden we had behind the house we lived before this one. A coworker at the time had given me a couple bulbs of his softneck garlic and I stuck them in the ground to great success. Over a period of maybe five years, we kept replanting and eating that garlic and ended up with a decent sized bed of it. But then we moved and left that behind. After that, we mainly just consumed and preserved excess from my mom's garden until she passed away but she never raised garlic. After her death, we took over the gardens and made them our own but being 40 miles away, we often lacked the energy to drive down there in late fall to loosen up some soil and stick garlic back in the ground for another year's crop. So, we just got back into the rut of using store bought garlic again. Last fall with our first garden season under our belts from the new garden behind our house, I decided it was about ti...