Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Chopped or shredded cabbage salted and fermented in its own juice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A favorite German dish, consisting of cabbage cut fine, pressed into a cask, with alternate layers of salt, and suffered to ferment till it becomes sour.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A dish made by
fermenting finely choppedcabbage . - noun obsolete, ethnic slur, offensive, slang A
German person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shredded cabbage fermented in brine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Along with lemon-ginger tea, sauerkraut is one of the all-purpose home remedies I offer quite often to the walking wounded.
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And we called sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and we called liberty cabbage "super slaw."
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Having lived in England, I can tell he's trying to be funny because he used the word sauerkraut while talking about Germans.
enowning enowning 2009
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Having lived in England, I can tell he's trying to be funny because he used the word sauerkraut while talking about Germans.
Archive 2009-06-01 enowning 2009
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The sauerkraut is not overwhelmingly difficult, but for those of us in Michoacán, the rye flour to make sour rye bread is very hard to find.
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Edit when we called sauerkraut ‘Liberty cabbage’ and somebody actually proposed calling German measles ‘Liberty measles’
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Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut ‘Liberty cabbage’ and somebody actually proposed calling German measles ‘Liberty measles’?
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The trick to sauerkraut is to drain but do not discard the packing liquid, and then rinse the sauerkraut VERY BRIEFLY in cold water, and then drain it again, discarding the second run-off.
Spareribs & Sauerkraut kat 2008
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Recently, I started making my own sauerkraut, which is much better tasting than store bought.
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I still can remember my first taste of this made up as choucroute, the French word for the German dish of sauerkraut, which is the the German word for both the fermented cabbage and the dish made from it containing a variety of smoked meats and sausages.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
oroboros commented on the word sauerkraut
Good King Sauerkraut, look out!
On your feets uneven,
While the snoo lay round about...
--Walt Kelly
May 3, 2007