Sauerkraut and a healthy gut microbiome

realitykeeper · 06-03-2018 08:49AM #1

Recently I tried making sauerkraut at home, I haven`t tried it yet because its still fermenting. Anyway, its supposed to be very good for you, a superfood in fact, as the following video shows. It seems to be quite popular on the continent. Was there ever an Irish version of sauerkraut before food was mass produced and easy to preserve? I don`t think there was which is surprising given it involves cabbage and storing food for the winter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6H31jWXLh0

Dizzyblonde · 06-03-2018 03:15PM

Mod note: I've moved this into the main Food forum where it will be seen, and added a tag

Whistlejacket · 08-03-2018 11:54AM

Cabbage plants will generally overwinter happily in our climate, so you can just go out to your garden and cut a head as you need it, rather than having to preserve it. I remember my grandparents doing this years ago.

It struck me during the recent snow that they were much better able to deal with similar weather. They had a shed of turf, a pit of potatoes, cabbage and other veg in the garden, flour to make bread, hens for eggs, their own well and a cow for milk. It was hard work all summer to grow everything and save turf etc. but they were fairly self sufficient as a result. No central heating or frozen water pipe issues to deal with either.

neris · 08-03-2018 12:42PM

Whistlejacket wrote: »

Cabbage plants will generally overwinter happily in our climate, so you can just go out to your garden and cut a head as you need it, rather than having to preserve it. I remember my grandparents doing this years ago.

It struck me during the recent snow that they were much better able to deal with similar weather. They had a shed of turf, a pit of potatoes, cabbage and other veg in the garden, flour to make bread, hens for eggs, their own well and a cow for milk. It was hard work all summer to grow everything and save turf etc. but they were fairly self sufficient as a result. No central heating or frozen water pipe issues to deal with either.

my mother in law still does that alot over in Lithuania, gets a vegetable patch started once the snow starts to melt and grows over the summer and ferments/pickles alot of veg and fruit they grow and they have a basement where they store potatoes and apples that winter as picked.

Sauerkraut and a healthy gut microbiome

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