""Mostly Dutch" | Civil War Era Sauerkraut Recipe" Topic
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Tango01  | 29 Jul 2023 4:59 p.m. PST |
"In the 1860s, sauerkraut was known to prevent scurvy and was seen as a necessary component of the diet of soldiers.1 Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art (1852) claimed it was a "certain cure for cholera," although we know this is not true.2 There was a call in newspapers for women at home to can sauerkraut to send to the soldiers to prevent diseases. Typical recipes from the time call for sauerkraut to be boiled with beef or other cuts of meat. Sauerkraut held strong associations with Germany as it still does today. Although no official count exists, it is estimated that 216,000 union soldiers were German immigrants and another 250,000 were first-generation immigrants from Germany. There were even a number of German-Americans fighting in the Confederate army. They were frequently referred to as "Dutch"…" link
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| Brechtel198 | 31 Jul 2023 4:17 a.m. PST |
Dutch was the Americanization of Deutsch. |
| dapeters | 31 Jul 2023 1:46 p.m. PST |
Cultural awareness has never been big in the US. |
| Tango01 | 31 Jul 2023 3:47 p.m. PST |
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