[Sca-cooks] sour cabbage - German recipe

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I was told once and never got docs on it. That an English captain in the
late 1500s, mentions an observation that the Germanic nations' sailors did
not seem to suffer like English sailors of scurvy. This was attributed to
the consumption of pickled cabbage.
In order to get his crew to eat the pickled cabbage, he had a barrel brought
on board and had it labeled for officers only.

This may help in a direction if all else comes to a dead end.

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The earliest mention of Sauerkraut is from 1607 in the book "Le Tresor di
Santi" written in
1607, which describes it as being German.  There are pickled cabbage recipes
that go back to
Roman times, but they aren't quite sauerkaut.

So I would say that Sauerkraut is probably late period, but we just haven't
found the recipes
yet.

Huette