[Sca-cooks] sour cabbage - German recipe

[Huette von Ahrens]

And Krautsalat (coleslaw) has been mentioned in period.  In his German travel diaries 
from 1580, Michel de Montaigne kept a list of "dishes unfamiliar to me," in which he 
included, without further comment, the "cabbage salads" that were set before him in 
the Swabian town of Lindau on Lake Constance.  No recipes alas, but if you make your
coleslaw without mayo, then you will be at least serving something potentially pre-1600.

Huette





--- otsisto <otsisto at socket.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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