sauerkraut can fight avian flu!!
anybosy has sauerkraut recipes to share? This is such a typical Polish (and German) product.
read it here:
While President Bush scrambles to ward off an avian-flu pandemic, the world's largest sauerkraut producer, tucked amid the glacial lakebeds of rural Wisconsin, is sitting atop a bumper crop of one possible preventative.
That's right: sauerkraut.
An international buzz is surrounding the unassuming fermented cabbage. Scientists at Seoul National University in South Korea fed an extract of kimchi, a spicy Korean variant of sauerkraut, to 13 chickens infected with avian flu, and a week later, 11 of the birds started to recover, according to a report by the BBC Network.
.... AP
A cure for the common cold:
A cup or glass of hot tea.
Honey to sweeten it.
A shot of Whiskey mixed in with the tea.
After consuming the beverage, jump into bed and wake up the next morning feeling great.
This too is a Polish American cure that works.
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Bob
It sure doesn't cure any cold I might have, but it's a helluva good bedtime drink! <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/music.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Leslie
Leslie,
Are you kidding? The cure, as Bob says, it has been used in my family since I was old enough to look at ladies.
A hot cup of tea,
A teaspoon of honey
And 2 fingers of good whiskey
mix together, drink as hot as possible, and crawl into bed. You will sweat out your cold overnight and feel great in the morning.
John. What me kid?!!!!! The drink as described but with a little sugar instead of the honey is a common drink I take to bed with me to drink as I am having my final read for the day. I just like whisky (and wodka, and Cointreau, and beer and ...................)
As far as Jaga's recipe for fighting avian flu, I'd rather have the flu than attempt to eat fermented cabbage - cabbage is Yuk even when not fermented! Sorry Jaga. I think perhaps a better recipe for fighting is Bob's and John's, but without the tea, honey or sugar!
Leslie
Sauerkraut?
Drain a large can of sauerkraut.
Wash the sauerkraut in cold water to reduce the bitterness.
Crushed stewed Tomatoes are added to the sauerkraut.
In a baking dish put in smoked Pork Chops or smoked Kielbasa.
Smother the smoked Pork Chops or Kielbasa with the sauerkraut mixture.
Barley can be added to the mixture and Brown Sugar sprinkled on top of the preperation, Caraway Seed can also be added (these are all optional).
Put the baking dish in a 350 degree oven and bake for a couple of hours. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/music.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Try a Google search for refinements on this recipe.
Hi Jaga, interesting the idea of SauerKraut preventing avian flu, but, what ever works, and tasty medicine at that.
http://www.hello2u.freeservers.com/home/kochreze.htmlThe above is some cooking recepts in both German and English. This one is Austrian, but, same as German, and I suspect, not so different from Polish. Rather then seperate the individual cooking recepts, thought that some of the remainder might be of interest.
Charles
Bob and all,
what about some garlic?
Yup, you can add that too if you want to Ja
ga. You can also add apple slices to the mix.
Hi Jaga, well once again with a recepe with sourkraut. Now then, this is designed for four people. If you become overly hundgry, then two persons, if you decide to drink the left over wine, best to include your poor husband.
We just call this one: Oktoberfest... or, just eat it any time of the year, who cares...
INGREDIANTS:
5 pounds meaty spareribs
3 tblsp butter
1 dash pepper
2 onions sliced
1 carrot grated
3 apples sliced
1 1/2 cup dry wine (that is when you drink the remainder...)
preheat oven 350 degrees (F)
In skillet, lightly brown spareribs in butter (your choice). Sprinkle with pepper. In seperate bowl, mix together sourkraut, onions (by this time with drank wine, who cares) and carrots. Place half this mixture in baking dish. Add half the apple slices and all spareribs. Cover with remaining saurkraut mixture, apple slices, and wine (the part I like best, because I have drank it, sorry). Cover and bake 1 hour45minutes.
If by chance you are trying to remove weight, forget it, other wise, just simply injoy this meal, because you have drank the left over wine, and your poor husband, has not a clue...love is just around the corner, and you deserve it..
Charles
This thread made me hungry. I have a bowl of Kimchi in my fridge and it is a good time for a snack. Love the stuff. Learned to eat it when I worked with the Korean Marines in Viet Nam.
And then you can down some adult beverage before diving into the Philippean Balots. I love Kimchi and there are many people around here who make that little tidbit. Poor Leslie, he doesn't know what he is missing out on.
Balots are only savored when you have San Miguel on hand.
After all culture is important.
Bob, I don't think there's anything polish about your "whiskey" cure.
Down here in the south my grandmothers (generations) have been mising whiskey, lemon juice, and honey as a cough remedy. Other's use peppermint instead of the lemon. (I grew up on the lemon)
My mom used to keep a mason jar of the stuff mixed up during the winter, especially during vocal festival time while I was growing up. I thought my dad was going to kill me one night when I was 16; when after a date, I came straight in, took a slug of our "medicine" and then proceeded to give him a night kiss. He wouldn't believe i hadn't been out drinking, and we had to get mom out of bed to vouvh for me! <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
(BTW - I never did "drink" until I was 20 - a whole year illegal!)
BellaAsthma host. I do believe this is one of those folk-remedies that really work. If you notice, all the non-prescription cold remedies contain <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />alcohol <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />. The home-brew stuff is a lot less expensive and IMHO works a lot better. Thank you for the smile (about drinking that mix before, and, your father getting upset). It really doesn't matter who claims it, it works. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Bob, I don't think there's anything polish about your "whiskey" cure.
Down here in the south my grandmothers (generations) have been mising whiskey, lemon juice, and honey as a cough remedy. Other's use peppermint instead of the lemon. (I grew up on the lemon)
My mom used to keep a mason jar of the stuff mixed up during the winter, especially during vocal festival time while I was growing up. I thought my dad was going to kill me one night when I was 16; when after a date, I came straight in, took a slug of our "medicine" and then proceeded to give him a night kiss. He wouldn't believe i hadn't been out drinking, and we had to get mom out of bed to vouvh for me! <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
(BTW - I never did "drink" until I was 20 - a whole year illegal!)
Michelle,
In my day we would call that bootleg or moonshine. <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />