- And some Green Beans. That does sound good. Tim www.tueltzen.smugmug.com -----Original Message----- From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bromley Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:20 AM To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NCR-Sauerkraut - Sarah, Don't give it all to him. I want part of your share also. Sausage and Saurkraut. Yummmmm, makes my mouth water. I wish there were a place to find that for lunch. It's be a nice alternate to Greek. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sarah Chisholm <sarah_cf30@xxxxxxxxx> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NCR-Sauerkraut Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:12:09 -0800 (PST) >- >Ditto what Glenn said :-p. But, Bernie, you can have my >share for the rest of my life, if you want it. :-), Sarah > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx> >To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Friday, January 5, 2007 8:51:08 AM >Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NCR-Sauerkraut > > >- >Sauerkraut is icky and makes the house stink. Nice story >tho Bernie. Thanks, > >glennn > >Bernie wrote: >> - >> I found this short story on Sauerkraut very interesting. >> It came from the Revolutionary War discussion group. No >> documentation that it made its way to the Rocky Mountains >> , but they may have left the settlements with some and it >may show up at some of the western trade forts, especially >> those that had gardens, such as many of the HBC forts. >> Enjoy. Sauerkraut >> >> If ever there was a proto-typical German food, it is the >> fermented or brined white cabbage known the world over by >> its German name of Sauerkraut - even though it did not >> even originate in Germany. Food historians believe that >> its roots date back to the building of the Great Wall of >> China, where laborers ate it to combat vitamin >> deficiencies arising from a diet consisting primarily of >>rice. >> >From China, the Tartars brought it to Eastern Europe, >> from where >>> it spread into Germany and the Netherlands. Because of >>> its anti- scorbutic values, Sauerkraut was used for >>> centuries thereafter especially during winter-time as an >>> integral part of people's diet in Central Europe. As the >>> Germans and Dutch settled in America, they brought along >>> with them the Sauerkraut, and it became a staple of >their diet in the New World as well. Since then it has been >>> , and probably forever will be, connected in the minds >>> of the non-Dutch or non-Deutsch, Americans with Germany >>>and the Germans. >>> But other ethnic groups ate it too: during the winter of >>> 1775/76, British forces in Boston allotted 1/2 pound of >>> Sauerkraut per man and week; in neighboring Rhode Island >>> a soldier was to get as much as 2 pounds per week. Their >>> Sauerkraut was shipped all the way from England and >>> Ireland, but it was of course available in America too, >where the Continental Congress in July 1777, ordered the >>> Board of War to procure Sauerkraut for the soldiers of >>> the Continental Army. >>> >>> Cheap, easily stored without spoilage, and well-known >>> for its anti-scorbutic functions, it was even more >>> important for sailors on the high seas. When Sauerkraut >>> was linked to the absence of scurvy among Dutch seamen, >>> English sea-captains included it in their menus as well. >By the 1780s, the Royal Navy used it widely; in a >>> memorandum of 21 January 1782, written at sea on his >>> flagship the Formidable, Admiral Lord Rodney wrote "of >>> Cabbage prepared in the German-way and called Sour >>> Kroutt." Useful "particularly as an Antiscorbutic," he >called it a food "wherewith His Majesty's Fleet is now >>> supply'd or to be supplied, at the Established rate of >>> two Pounds a Week for each Man, having been strikingly >>>manifested at Sea on many occasions." >>> The beneficial, if not medicinal, values of Sauerkraut >>> are indisputable. Fresh, raw cabbage is very rich in >>> Vitamin C; one cup or 200 grams contains a whole day's >>> supply. Sauerkraut, which is also an excellent source of >>> Vitamin K, has about half as much Vitamin C as raw >Kraut. Sauerkraut is also rich in cruciferous >>> phytochemicals, long known for their disease-fighting >>> powers. 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