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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 Various
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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 Marian Gouverneur
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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 Mary C. Vaughan
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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 Upton Sinclair 1923
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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 Henry Louis 1921
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The sauer, in sauer-kraut and sauer-braten, is often spelled sour.
Chapter 8. American Spelling. 6. The Treatment of Loan-Words Henry Louis 1921
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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.
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The chef at the club, Mr. Scherer insisted, could produce nothing equal to Heinrich's sauer-kraut and sausage.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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The chef at the club, Mr. Scherer insisted, could produce nothing equal to Heinrich's sauer-kraut and sausage.
A Far Country — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909
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The chef at the club, Mr. Scherer insisted, could produce nothing equal to Heinrich's sauer-kraut and sausage.
A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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