Snippled Beans

Snippled Beans is sauerkraut made with string beans. It is a practical idea not only because it disposes of end-of-summer abundance in a useful way but also because the “beankraut” is pleasantly mild.

This recipe was kindly given to me by Mrs. Vernon Haas of Woodville, Ohio. In the nineteenth century, crank-turned shredders were developed specifically for Buhne-Schnipple, and in Mrs. Haas’s section of Ohio they were called sni