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From: "Noan Brook Williams" <>
Subject: [OHHAMILT] German food
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:17:30 -0700

My grandfather made sauerkraut in the basement every year. The recipe was as follows: 100 lbs shredded cabbage, 5 lbs. salt, 1 cup sugar, 1 fifth of whiskey. He had a large crock and placed clean stones on the bottom. Over the stones he poured a cup of sugar. He had a cabbage cutter which fit over the top of the crock. He shredded cabbage into the crock sprinkling salt liberally over each thick layer until the crock was full. He then placed a heavy lid over the top and left it to ferment. The whiskey he drank while he worked at the sauerkraut. My mother and her brothers and sisters would go down to the basement and take a handful of the fermenting sauerkraut whenever they wanted a snack.

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