Cheap and easy, just like me.
After 2 weeks, it's finally ready.
2 heads of cabbage and a couple of Tbs of salt and I got 8 pints of sour kraut. Must have about $2.50 invested.
google the recipe, then google the health benefits.
blondie58
(2,570 posts)Fermented foods are so good!
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I have never considered making my own sauerkraut, but it makes sense. I thought it would be hard to do, but apparently, it isn't.
I found this recipe for making it in a mason jar, so you don't have to make a huge quantity if you don't want that much. Is this how you did it?
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-homemade-sauerkraut-in-a-mason-jar-193124
safeinOhio
(34,342 posts)The deal with home made is that it isn't pasteurized like that you buy at the store. There are a ton of natural probiotics that are removed when processed. I read somewhere that you get way more than you would in the pills.
I happened across a great 2 gallon, wide mouth jar at a yard sale and thought I'd try to make a bunch using two heads. Ended up with 8 pint jars. Two days and half a pint is gone. The more I eat the better it taste.
Also vitamine C. Sailors use to make it for long trips so they wouldn't get scurvy.
Give it a try. Just squeeze it real good with your hands to get it nice and juicy.