[GeoStL] Re: NCR-Sauerkraut
- From: "GC-RGS" <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 15:52:38 -0600
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That's fine, but you guys are going to be eating outside!!!
No bad food is allowed at the SLAGA events. It's in the bylaws!
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From: "Bernie" <happykraut@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NCR-Sauerkraut
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> Tim, that sounds like a plan. Bernie
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> Bernie I think we both need to bring sauerkraut to the Cabin Potluck.
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> Tim
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> Ditto what Glenn said :-p. But, Bernie, you can have my share for the rest
> of my life, if you want it.
> :-), Sarah
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> From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, January 5, 2007 8:51:08 AM
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> Sauerkraut is icky and makes the house stink. Nice story tho Bernie.
> Thanks,
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> glennn
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> Bernie wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> >From China, the Tartars brought it to Eastern Europe, from where
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>>> 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. Recent research has
>>> shown moreover that the process of fermentation of the raw Kraut
>>> produces a substance called isothiocynates, which prevent cancer
>>> growth, particularly in the breast, colon, lung, and liver.
>>>
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