> zxcvbob writes:
>
>PENMART01 wrote:
>>>Melba's Jammin' writes:
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Cabbage was on sale for 15¢ per pound, and I bought 5 huge heads;
>>>>about 4.5 pounds each. That is the cheapest I've seen cabbage in
>>>>about 5 or 10 years. I cut up 2 heads and Wife says it's stinking up
>>>>the house (just cutting it, not cooking it.) I'll finish tomorrow
>>>>when she's not home, but I have 3 half-gallon jars ready to go in the
>>>>basement. I figured out that a half-gallon jar will hold about 1
>>>>kilogram of thinly sliced cabbage if you really cram in it there.
>>>>And a tablespoon of pickling salt is about 20 grams. So after the
>>>>first jar, I don't have to weigh anything because that's the right
>>>>50:1 ratio.
>>>
>>>>Pack the jars with as much sliced cabbage as you can get in it, add 1
>>>>tablespoon of salt, fill slowly with simmering water (dissolves the salt
>>>>and it displaces the trapped air), cap the jars, and store for a month or
>>>>so in a cool place where it's OK if they leak. Use your nastiest rusty
>>>>rings because the salt that leaks out will ruin them.
>>>>
>>>>I've never used half-gallon canning jars before, I usually use quarts. I
>>>>also am trying plastic 1-pieces lids instead of metal 2-pieces canning
>>>>lids.
>>>>
>>>>Best regards,
>>>>Bob
>>>
>>>Hmmm, you're tempting me to try it, Bob. Lord knows I've got the half
>>>gallon jars for it.
>>
>>
>> Methinks you need to first do some research, that's not how to make
>> sauerkraut... that will make a big stinkin' mess.
>
>
>A big stinking mess if you eat too much of it at once. Don't ask me how
>I know this...
>
>The only thing I don't know is if the added water increases the salt
>requirement. I've made sauerkraut like this many times in quart jars
>and it comes out perfect -- but I need to check my notes and see exactly
>how much salt per jar I used (I think it was 2 tsp), and weight the
>contents of cabbage that I can cram into a quart jar. 50:1 is the
>classic ratio of cabbage to salt for making sauerkraut.

http://abe.www.ecn.purdue.edu/~agen5...rautindex.html

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