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Anybody making their own sauerkraut? I've been buying refrigerated fresh kraut but would love to make my own. If anyone out there has had success doing it, I would like your recipe!

Reen ;-)

I believe Ted (LaMonty) has been homemade in the past.

Tim

my parents make wonderful sauerkraut, i ll find out the recipe for you.

I personally use a few, the most common one I make is just using a 2litre clamp jar. I enough cabbages by estimations to fill the jar to almost 80% full. Then I use a food blender for ease and use the shredding disc to shred the cabbages, sometimes I mix in about 4oz water. I add the contents to a bowl and mix in about 3tbls of celtic salt. I then put the mixture into the 2lt jar, clamp the lid on. I leave that for 3-7 days, just till it looks ready then transfer to jam jars. Sometimes I then leave the jam jars out for longer if not I put them all the in fridge and it keeps forever. Other recipes are using whey from kefir or yogurt strained, less salt or using a veg starter culture. It can turn bad in the first few attempts, it may take a few times to get things right just try and keep things fairly clean. Usually though the salt keeps bad things at bay until the good guys take over.

Phil

Hi there

yes I do sauerkraut regularly and eat heaps of it everyday. I know of no better food against Crohns and other IBD. It is really SO simple! Just mix cabbage and salt and wait for some weeks. Places I got inspiration from when I started a year ago are for example

http://www.wildfermentation.com/fermfoodlinks.htm
http://www.healingcrow.com/ferfun/ferfun.html
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/lacto.html

Good luck! Fermentation is fun and delicious!
Best
Andreas

Phil,

Thank you so much! I can't wait to get started. I bought cabbage yesterday but all they had was red cabbage, so this is going to be a different looking kraut!

Thanks again,

Reen ;-)

Great links! I put them in my bookmarks.

Reen ;-)

I am happy to hear that you appreciated the links.
Here's another one if you don't know it already: dom's homepage is a must for any fermenter:
http://users.chariot.net.au/%7Edna/
(follow the links at the bottom)
I have bought two very good books:
"wild fermentation" (see links)
and
sally fallons book "nourishing traditions"
Check out the index of the home page of the
Weston A Prince foundation:
http://www.westonaprice.org/sitemap.html
Their ideas are more or less identical with what
I learned independently before finding this link.

All the best
Andreas

Yes, i was wondering how you managed to leave Dom out of the first listing
I was on the kefir_makers list for ages and learnt much about LGS and issues that relate so closely to AS and it's mitigation.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/x0560e/x0560e00.htm
This is the sort of thing i accumulate as i always like to have official looking info to back up other stuff i find on the fringes...
Hey Reen, Sauerkraut is in section 5.6
There's another good site - Pakistani Agriculture i think which does wonderful pdf articles on a quarterly basis about all sorts of nutrient issues for the third world.
Happy researching.

Andreas:

Thanks for posting those links. They appear to be very informative. I can tell, based on comments from others, that I will be spending more time in this forum rather then the main forum.

MikeinSA