HOW TO PRONOUNCE
sauerkraut
/ˈsaʊɚˌkɹaʊt/
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SOW-er-krout: both full vowels rhyme with “cow.”
Put the strongest beat at the beginning and a smaller one on KROUT. The final t follows the vowel directly, without an extra uh.
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“The sandwich came with a side of sauerkraut.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does sauerkraut mean?
noun
- A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete, offensive, slang) A German person.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsaʊɚˌkɹaʊt/
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The closest analogies to composting I can imagine are concocting similar fermented products like bread, beer, or sauerkraut.
“Drouth, chince-bugs, hail, everything! My garden all cut to pieces like sauerkraut. No grapes on the creek, no nothing. The people all lived just like coyotes.”
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By a similar process cabbage is turned into sauerkraut.
So, bit by bit, the feast takes form—there is a ham and a dish of sauerkraut, boiled rice, macaroni, bologna sausages, great piles of penny buns, bowls of milk, and foaming pitchers of beer.
Thirty bushels of potatoes, four bushels of turnips, one bushel of carrots, thirty gallons of sauerkraut, fifteen gallons of catsup, five gallons of pickled beans, one hundred quarts of canned tomatoes, fifty quarts of canned corn, twenty quarts of beans, one thousand or more fine celery stalks, and many other things.