{"id":2231,"date":"2010-11-09T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2010-11-09T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:07:05","slug":"time-to-make-sauerkraut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Time to make sauerkraut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sauerkraut-2010-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sauerkraut-2010-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sauerkraut-2010-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2232\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>You need cabbage, crocks, a scale, a shredder, and the right kind of salt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Making sauerkraut is not my favorite chore. Shredding the cabbage is tedious, and bits of cabbage go everywhere. I did the job out on the deck to keep the mess out of the kitchen. I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canningpantry.com\/sauerkraut-crocks.html\">Harsch crocks<\/a>, which are made in Germany especially for making sauerkraut. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prago-Shredder-Stainless-Disassembles-Clean-Up\/dp\/B004510BUO\">Prago cabbage shredder<\/a> requires a lot of manual work, but it does the job and gets the cabbage exactly the right thickness for sauerkraut.<\/p>\n<p>I made 15 pounds of sauerkraut today, from cabbage bought in Virginia. I used a little more salt than last time &#8212; 3 tablespoons per 10 pounds of cabbage. Next spring I hope to make sauerkraut from my own homegrown organic cabbage.<\/p>\n<p>The first tasting should be in early December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sauerkraut-2010-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sauerkraut-2010-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sauerkraut-2010-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2233\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Shredded and in the crock<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sauerkraut-2010-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sauerkraut-2010-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sauerkraut-2010-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2234\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I keep the crocks under a table near the kitchen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need cabbage, crocks, a scale, a shredder, and the right kind of salt Making sauerkraut is not my favorite chore. Shredding the cabbage is tedious, and bits of cabbage go everywhere. I did the job out on the deck to keep the mess out of the kitchen. I use Harsch crocks, which are made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time to make sauerkraut&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}