Making Kraut in the Jar - Old Timey Recipe

In this video I'm sharing the way Granny makes her kraut each year.

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[justinehyre]

This is basically how my mother-in-law showed us how to do kraut.
She did one teaspoon of salt in the bottom of the jar, cabbage, one teaspoon of salt on top(no sugar) and covered it with boiling water. Then seal and let process for at least 2 weeks. The longer it sits the better.
Will be doing this soon.
Thanks for showing us how to do it!!

[lisav]

Sometimes you just need a "Granny" to work alongside you in the kitchen. I fear alot of people today won't ever get that blessing; all of the stories, all of the ways of doing things, all of the joy that comes along with that. Thank you again, Tipper, for sharing your methods and your Granny with us. ❤

[lisabeal]

This is how I've made kraut. I have left out the sugar and it's still delicious. Continuing to pray for Granny and all of you as well. God bless you all.

[lindamcgee]

I love kraut and weenies. Also kraut and great northern beans 🤗 Continued prayers 🙏 for you all, especially Granny 💕

[mommadirt]

Thank you for sharing! This is very much the way my mother made kraut in the Ozarks. She didn't follow the moon phases nor add sugar. After jarred we put them in the cellar to ferment. I'm not sure where she learned how to do it like this. Prayers for Grannie.

[cheryllamb]

Thank you for sharing Grannie's method for making kraut - it looks so easy. My mom made it in a crock, covered it with the leaves, and weighted it down with a plate & brick. She did can hers. After eating homemade kraut i would not buy any for about 15 years.
My prayers are with you all, especially Grannie, knowing the Lord's hand is with you. 🙏🛐✝️🙏

[kimfleury]

Sorry to hear that Granny is poorly. I'll keep her and you in my prayers. As for making kraut, I don't have any personal memories of it, but when I told my Mom that I was looking up recipes for it last year, she asked me, "Don't you remember your grandpa Grandpa Fleury making sauerkraut?" She went on to tell about how Grandma and Grandpa Fleury had bought an old farmhouse in the 1950s, and it still had an outhouse. Yes, we're getting to the part about kraut 😂 Grandpa took space from one of the three bedrooms upstairs to put in a full bathroom. Then he was going to put in a half bath off the kitchen. This is where I don't remember anything about it. Mom described it as a closet of some kind, that was partially plumbed for the bathroom. I guess it just had the lavatory sink. That's when Grandpa changed his mind about putting in a toilet. Instead, he put in some kind of bench, and he set a washtub on the bench. An old-fashioned metal washtub. Great big. And that's what he used to make up his sauerkraut. He put everything into that washtub and let it sit with the door closed. Mom was amazed that I didn't remember how awful it smelled. Well, I was knee high to a grasshopper, and I wasn't allowed to stay in the kitchen ever. Us grandkids were only allowed to walk through the kitchen when we came in the backdoor. No looking around, either. To be fair, it was a small kitchen, and there were at least 20 grandchildren there on any given Sunday. I don't even remember seeing any closet door in the kitchen. So it was all happening in secret as far as I was concerned. I know at some point Grandpa put the kraut into jars and stored them in the basement, because I do remember having the jars on the dining room table at Sunday dinner, and sometimes Grandpa or one of my uncles or Dad would be sent down to the basement to bring up jars of preserved vegetables and fruits. I wish I had Grandpa's recipe, but he died when I was 19, before I was thinking about things like that. I didn't start enjoying sauerkraut until my digestion needed the help of fermented and pickled foods. And now I'm learning that vitamin K2 is extremely important for calcium to be put into bones and taken out of tissues and blood vessels. If you eat fermented, not pasteurized sauerkraut, it actually cleans out your arteries, because all that blockage is calcium that calcifies right on the walls of the blood vessel. The only way to get vitamin K2 is by eating fermented foods like sauerkraut, and beef, chicken or eggs that come from grass fed animals without much supplementation of food besides grass. Factory farms barely feed hay grass to their animals, so we're seeing a lot of health problems from that. I don't have to tell you that your way of eating is the healthy way! Wishing y'all good health and long contented lives!

[swoodhaus]

That recipe is/looked so easy. Thanks to food processors and fermenting. Prayers for granny and to your family.
Thank you once again for sharing this recipe!

[sarahthomas]

I have made kraut this way but without the sugar, we would clean up the jars when it was done and then steam bath them in my Conservo canner to seal them.

[cathysummers]

Kraut I love, Never seen made like this way but it all ways good hearing a new way! May Granny heal and Your family have a lovely evening! ❤️☺️🇺🇸

[GardenFairy-lp]

Thank you for sharing this. I am very particular about the sauerkraut brand I will buy in the store and fermenting scares me. Your excellent demonstration of putting up kraut in a jar inspired me to get brave. I decided to experiment with the sugar, water, and vinegar recipe and then canned it. Because I wanted to compare recipes, I made a batch without sugar. Then I fixed a couple of jars to set outside. I just opened a jar of sugared kraut and found it wasn’t sour enough. No problem, I just added a couple of tablespoons of vinegar. So pleased. I won’t be buying kraut from the store again.

[me]

My kraut is happily burbling away in the crock passed to me from my Grandparents who also made kraut. Of course it's salted but thinking I might add a teaspoon of sugar to my quarts when I jar it up. Great video. Thanks for sharing ❤

[RandallMoore-ctvo]

I helped my granny make this recipe minus the sugar every year when we harvested our cabbages. Before my granny passed away i had my wife learn it from my granny as well. This stuff can last a very very long time. My granny had jars were the lids were almost rusted shut and she would just spoon out the top layer then cook the rest and to me the older it was the more oomph it has. We always had kraut and weinies. Nowadays i make it with conecuh or royal smoked sausage thats made in Alabama

[janesmith]

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Continued prayers for Granny and the family. This was a wonderful tribute to her and her cooking. ❤

[ashleyporter]

Here in eastern Kentucky, my mommy makes hers the same way except without the sugar. She always puts hers in the crawl space under the house. She says it needs to be somewhere dark and cool to keep from turning brown. She put it in her pantry one year and every jar turned brown. We love watching your videos. God bless you and your family!

[pedmonds]

I have tried many methods. This worked great and was the easiest.

[inthrutheoutdoor]

My dad would have loved your channel. He made kraut in crocks (they were old Heinz pickle crocks) and ferment them. I still have the crocks but I don't make kraut. You made me tear up when you said Granny was sick. Praying her better. I miss Mom and Dad.

[cumberlandquiltchic]

I love krait! You were talking about when you use to teach your cooking class… do you have any plans to do that again? You could host your own at a conference center or hotel or bed n breakfast type place and stay filled up! I’ve gone to a lot of quilt retreats for a long weekend or a week. It’s expensive, but sure was fun.

[cynthiaruiz]

This method seems more simple than when my Mom and Grandma made it. They used a large crock and I always asked Grandma to make it extra sour for me. Sauer Kraut and country spare ribs was one of my favorite meals growing up and I still like it today! Blessings to you and the whole family. Hugs to Granny.