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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes,rec.food.cooking
- From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
- Subject: Choucroute Garnie
- Message-ID: <WHNSTF9@taronga.com>
- Summary: juniper berries
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 10:55:15 GMT
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- Choucroute Garnie
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- 3 pounds sauerkraut
- 1/2 pound chunk bacon
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup carrots, thinly sliced
- 1 cup onions, thinly sliced
- parsley sprigs
- 1 bay leaf
- 6 peppercorns
- 10 juniper berries (or 1/4 cup gin)
- 1 1/2 cups beef bouillon
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 cup dry white wine
- salt
- 1 2 to 3 pound smoked pork butt
- 1 kielbasa
- 4 knockwurst
- 3 smoked bratwurst
- 3 unsmoked veal sausages
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- Drain the sauerkraut. Place in a large bowl and cover with cold water.
- Soak for 20 minutes, changing the water twice. Drain again. Then take
- up large handfuls and squeeze out as much water as possible. Set aside.
- Remove the rind from the bacon and cut into strips about two inches long
- and one half inch wide. Blanch bacon by placing in a saucepan and covering
- with two quarts of cold water. Bring to a boil, then simmer 10 minutes.
- Drain. Melt the butter in a two and one half or three quart casserole.
- Add the blanched bacon, carrots and onion and cook slowly, covered, for 10
- minutes. Do not let the vegetables brown. Stir in the sauerkraut, breaking
- up any clumps in it. Cover and cook on top of the range slowly for 10
- minutes. Preheat the oven to 325F. Tie the parsley, bay leaf, peppercorns,
- and juniper berries in cheesecloth, and bury them in the sauerkraut. Pour
- in the bouillon, water, wine and gin if you are using it. Add salt to
- taste. Continue cooking on top of hte stove until it comes to a boil, then
- place in the oven and cook, covered, for 4 hours. Check now and then to be
- sure the sauerkraut is not too dry. If all the liquid has cooked away, add
- a little more bouillon or wine. The sauerkraut should just bubble.
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- Start the meat two and one half hours before serving. Place the pork butt
- in a pot, cover with cold water, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and
- simmer, covered, two hours. Start the sausages one hour before serving
- time. Place the kielbasa in a large pot with cold water to cover. Bring
- to a boil, then simmer, covered, 20 minutes. Add the knockwurst and smoked
- bratwurst to the kielbasa pot. Bring to a boil again, the simmer 10 minutes.
- Add the veal sausages and simmer 5 minutes longer. Turn off the heat and
- let stand 5 minutes more. Remove the herb bouquet before transferring the
- choucroute to a platter.
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