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    Home » Articles » Cooking - Recipes

    Fermentation Sauerkraut How To update

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 1 Comment

    Inspired by Daniel Gasteiger's new book Yes, You Can! and Freeze and Dry It too book on canning, freezing and more, we are now fermenting cabbage into sauerkraut.

    And we are shooting a video on how to make sauerkraut. Above are the two jars we are fermenting for the video. I did one batch with just green cabbage, carrots and caraway seeds, and started a second batch of sauerkraut with a mix of red cabbage and green cabbage. From what i've read, it seems best to use an earthenware crock or plastic container; i used two large glass canning jars.

    we are fermenting cabbage into sauekraut and making a how-to video on making sauerkraut

    The fermentation jars are covered with a towel and sitting on the kitchen counter, I check them every day, and watch these bubbles come out from the cabbage. You can see some bubbles in the jar of red cabbage in the above photo.

    I asked on our Facebook Page for suggestions on what ingredients to put into sauerkraut, and got some great responses:

    Thom: I make two types, one with just cabbage,onions and salt and the other a spicy type with cabbage,onion,garlic,carrots,radish or daikon,pepper flakes,fresh ginger,dill and salt.

    Dennis: love making sauerkraut, apple and cumin is a good combo!

    Woodwife: Green Just cabbage and salt.

    Josh:  cabbage salt and sugar to sweeten it up a bit

    Michael:  Juniper berries

    Joe:  I all ready made mine for the year its canned and put up. I canned 12 quarts I use just salt and a little sugar and a few apples.

    Janet: I haven't made sauerkraut yet, but I plan on it. I listen to your radio show podcasts on Itunes and recently purchased the book "Yes You Can". I can't wait for it to come in the mail. Thank you for everything that you do!! It is truly inspirational and entertaining. Keep up the good work!!! 🙂
    Sunday at 6:41pm ·  1 person

    Claudia:  you wanna get Gundelsheim or Midlessa Sauerkraut, put a McIntosh apple (cut up), bay leaves and Juniper berries as well as sugar and a beef boullion cube and let it cook for about an hour, Oh yeah, cut up an onion and put it in there as well
    Sunday at 10:58pm

    Gerald:  We do 3# cabbage to 1 tablespoon salt. Pack it down til brine forms (maybe top off) Weigh it down so the cabbage stays under the brine. Cover and wait. Sometimes we add caraway seeds, but plain ol' kraut is best. This year we used 80# cabbage total.
    Monday at 8:02pm

    Gerald:  I have also used the lacto-fermented brine in your artisan bread to make it sourdoughish.

    Neat, all sorts of ideas here. next batch will have apples in it. I'm curious about canning the sauerkraut afterward, does that reduce its health qualities? Let me know what you think below:

     

     

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    1. Brian Tokarchuk

      October 15, 2011 at 1:49 pm

      Hi,I prefer freezing my sauerkraut as opposed to canning it I just find it much simpler, and I would like to point out in the suggestions above the ones you have listed under (Thom) are actually mine, 🙂 Great Site keep up the good work!

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