Sauerkraut

[my-thyme]

Anyone got an unusual recipe?

 

[stgislander]

Anyone got an unusual recipe?

Add caraway seeds?

If you want unusual try kimchi.

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

Anyone got an unusual recipe?

Add in some shredded carrots, and maybe some beets, and some garlic as well. You can use some red cabbage mixed in to add color as well. And a bit of apple too.

 

[vraiblonde]

My ex-MIL made killer sauerkraut but it wasn't unusual - just shredded cabbage and whatever else left to rot until it's ready.

 

[Kyle]

.... - just shredded cabbage and whatever else left to rot until it's ready.

You should write Restaurant Menu descriptions.

 

[PrchJrkr]

Mr. B from the old McKay's recipe was very simple. He told me that he cut the core out of the cabbages, fill them with salt, and store them in a leak proof covered container until they were finished "working". He suggested using a new and cleaned, covered garbage can.

 

[Gilligan]

SGI and wife make some killer kraut. Pretty much identical to what we made back on the farm when I was a kid. Making it was just another chore we hated as kids...and miss as adults.

 

[Sneakers]

In Olden days:
"Well, we have all this cabbage that didn't get sold. Shame to see it go to waste. What do we do with it?"

"I've got some crocks, maybe it will store over the winter."

Weeks Later...
"Ugh, that's some rank stuff in that crock. W should throw it out."
"No, wait... we use salt to preserve everything else, let's try that!"
"Sure! OK!"

Weeks Later...
"Still smell awful rank. Suppose it's any good?"
"Only one way to find out...."

Surprised entire communities didn't just drop dead from food poisoning.

 

[Merlin99]

We had a cabbage shredder growing up, think a big mandolin, that we could shred a cabbage in about 30 seconds. It took longer to clean it than to use it. Now I just use a knife and it takes me longer to shred one head than it did to do a dozen.

 

[PrchJrkr]

I've still got my grandfather's shredding "board" in a closet somewhere. He came through Ellis Island at age 6 and spoke with a very heavy Polish accent all his life. My Great grandmother was very well off in the old country, but uprooted her young brood to seek a better life in America. They ALL learned English, although they all had an accent. My grandparents stopped speaking their native tongue when my uncle got in trouble at school for rolling his "R"s. My, how times have changed...

 

[RoseRed]

I've still got my grandfather's shredding "board" in a closet somewhere. He came through Ellis Island at age 6 and spoke with a very heavy Polish accent all his life. My Great grandmother was very well off in the old country, but uprooted her young brood to seek a better life in America. They ALL learned English, although they all had an accent. My grandparents stopped speaking their native tongue when my uncle got in trouble at school for rolling his "R"s. My, how times have changed...

Same. My ggrandparents came from Norway when my grandmother was 6. They all learned and spoke English.