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From: "EEKrause" <>
Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] off topic - sauerkraut
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:28:23 -0600
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My Grandparents on my Dad's side came to the USA from Bohemia (they spoke
German and we always considered the family as being German). My Grandmother
on my Mom's side came from Rhineland and my Gr-Grandfather on my Mom's side
came from Mecklenburg. Anyway - they all ate sauerkraut. I still make it
in the Fall of the year, and last year's batch seemed to be especially good
(not intending to brag :) )

My Grandmother Krause used to fix sauerkraut with caraway seed in it and
some other ingredients, as the dish had a sweet-sour taste. Sad to say,
none of the relatives remember the recipe! My wife's family always eats
pork roast and sauerkraut on New Year's Day to ensure good luck in the
following year. As a child growing up, my family ate sauerkraut with pork
ribs and pork hocks, sometimes with raised dumplings cooked in with it.

Emil in Wisconsin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lentz (by way of Paula Goblirsch)" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:52 AM
Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] off topic - sauerkraut


> I hope fellow list members will be tolerant in my pushing the
> boundaries of this list. I am a genealogist
> enthusiast and a returning college student. So for one of my reports
> I am trying to combine the two. I am writing on the history and
> culture changes to sauerkraut (choucroute). I thought maybe some of
> fellow genealogists could tell me of your experiences with this food
> dish. I am looking for places it was eaten and how different groups
> of people changed it. So I would like to know if a relative from
> country..(like Czech., Poland) made sauerkraut and ate it with..
> (sausage, sour cream, etc) and maybe brought it to America... I want
> to add the real life into the topic not just the general history from
> books. I have already found out that cabbage preserved in brine did
> exist in Poland, but I did not find out if it was also called
> sauerkraut.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tracy
>
> To not mess up the list, people could just send the responses to my
> email or
> instead of the list.
>
>
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>
>

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