German Sauer Kraut. A preparation of cabbage boiled in weak vinegar.
1789. Can they [girls] split wood, reap grain, make bread, beer-soup, and sour kraut?—“Peter in Hesse,” American Museum, v. 92/2 (Jan.).
1789. I am happy to inform you that by the strength of good beef and pork, and the vivacity of sour crout, I have once more a chance of establishing arbitrary power in Can.—Speech of the Emperor of Lilliput, Id., v. 297/2.
1800. An advertisement of the “Beef Steak and Oyster House, at the sign of the Sorrel Horse, in Branch-Street (commonly called Sower Crout Alley) a little to the northward of Sassafras Street”: The Aurora, Philadelphia, Jan. 18.
1802. Here too is a plenty of all sorts of sauce, excepting sour crout.—The Balance, Hudson, N.Y., Feb. 2, p. 33/1. (Italics in the original.)
1806. Some of [Simon Snyder’s] neighbors might have spoken of him as raising a great number of cabbages, and making excellent sour krout; but as a legislator, a statesman, a framer of constitutions, he would not have been known.—Id., Jan. 28, p. 25/1. (Italics in the original.)
1809. To furnish them with no supplies of gin, gingerbread, or sour crout.—W. Irving, ‘A History of New-York,’ i. 214 (1812).
1818. A jolly Dutchman from the Hague, grumbling because there was no sour crout on the table.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 26: from the National Advocate.
1824. From the happy days of zour krout and buttermilk to these depraved modern days of hasty-pudding and molasses.—The Microscope, Albany, May 15.
1829. It is said the Dutchman get cloyed with her name, so dissonant with his beloved sour-krout and buttermilk.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 4.
1840. See JOHNNY-CAKE.
1841. If Mr. Fillmore will visit Kinderhook [Mr. Van Buren’s place of residence] I am sure he will be welcomed there to the best sour crout.—Mr. Ingersoll of Pennsylvania, in the House of Repr., July 29: Cong. Globe, p. 210, App.
1856. ‘I used for to like crout—once-t,’ said one, ‘but I do n’t keer for no crout now. No Sir-ee! I ’m down on crout like a nigger preacher on the wices of white folks.—Knick. Mag., xlvii., 616 (June).
