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Default Making Sauerkraut

jec wrote:
> Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>
>>When my mom made sweet and sour cabbage, she used sugar and vinegar ‹
>>and fresh cabbage, not sauerkraut. By the by, the bread dumplings are
>>called knedliky.

>
> Could they have been mixing up their countries?


Germans and Huns have lived close by for many centuries. The
Austro-Hungarian Empire put them in the same country for several of
those centuries. To me it's history that mixed them together.

> I've had Hungarian
> sauerkraut that was cooked with tomato or tomato sauce and it was
> reddish and sweet. I didn't care for the combination myself.


Tastes vary. Sounds awesome to me.