Making homemade kraut is on my "round-tuit" list. One of these days I'll get around to it. I've read up on it and there's nothing particularly difficult about it. No harder than making beer and probably easier.
Got family up in VA that them and their community do a kraut canning every year in the fall, once all the cabbage heads are picked they get a big ol washpot boiling and the process/assembly line starts! I only had the pleasure of tending a few growing up but man what a time, you have to be careful of the clear liquid jars that get past around LOL. If memory serves some gatherings had close to 50 people or better in attendance. The air reeked of farts for miles around!
Sounds like the Mennonites I used to know up that way. Everything was a community affair. Good folks and good eating.
lots of good folks up in them hills and hollers! They are just a bunch of ridge runners and hillbillies and I'm proud to call'em kin!
After going through this thread I'm jonesing for some good Kim Chi myself but that's a rare find in Ghetto Grove. I may have to make the drive to Pubelicks.
