sauer-kraut

• “Pickles, sauer-kraut, coffee and hard bread they gave to these -- for the sick and wounded they reserved their precious luxuries.”

  Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience

• “His recovery he always attributes (under Heaven) to the humane interference of one Doctor Wilhelm Richter, a German empiric, who, in this extremity, prescribed a copious diet of _sauer-kraut_, which the child was observed to reach at with avidity, when other food repelled him; and from this change of diet his restoration was rapid and complete.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863

• “Pennsylvania was represented by a bowl of sauer-kraut; and in speaking of the fact the next morning the General remarked: "I partook of it with tears in my eyes.”

  As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century

• “During the first year of American participation in the World War an effort was made on patriotic grounds to substitute liberty-cabbage for sauer-kraut, but it quickly failed, for the name had become as completely Americanized as the thing itself, and so liberty-cabbage seemed affected and absurd.”

  Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 4. Foreign Influences Today

• “The sauer, in sauer-kraut and sauer-braten, is often spelled sour.”

  Chapter 8. American Spelling. 6. The Treatment of Loan-Words

• “Their life requirements were simple; all they wanted was an unlimited quantity of canvas and paint, some cigarettes, and at long intervals a pickle or some sauer-kraut and a bottle of beer.”

  100% : The Story of a Patriot

• “The chef at the club, Mr. Scherer insisted, could produce nothing equal to Heinrich's sauer-kraut and sausage.”

  A Far Country — Volume 1

• “The frog carries the revolver for the sauer-kraut.”

  Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

• “The fact that millions will make their homes beneath leaden skies, amid scenes of desolation, while there is room and to spare in our sunny Southland, is not without its significance, -- indicates plainly that man has not yet progressed far into that spiritual kingdom where the soul must be fed as well as the stomach; where sunlight is more necessary than sauer-kraut, where beauty furnishes forth more delights than beer.”

  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.

• “The Dutchmen, the “fraus,” the “spreading,” the sauer-kraut — the conestogas, the red barns, the guttural voices, the strange faces — were these actual things, or the mere fancies of a somnambulist?”

  Mohun, or, The last days of Lee and his paladins

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