Mrs. Etting’s Sugarkraut

Sugarkraut was served as a festive dish at Christmas by the Pennsylvania Dutch and on the eve of Purim by the Pennsylvania-German Jews. Where the Dutch might use bacon or smoked goose, their Jewish acquaintances used smoked tongue and the requisite garnish of chopped pistachios.

The Neuer Gemeinnütziger Pennsylvaniacher Calender for 1892 published an old-fashioned recipe for Sugarkraut, not too different from this one, which is said to have come from Mrs. Elijah Etting