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Hello Paul -
You may not believe it happens, but we always made krout when I was a
teen ager, and I have seen the pickle rise and fall consistently year after
year the same way with the moon. What I see I have to believe and can only
assume that you have never had any experience working in this medium.
Roland.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul S. Boyer" <psboyer@eastlink.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] phases of the moon
> This is folk-magic. It is pretty neat folklore (the bit about the pickle
> rising as the moon waxes is a nice parallelism), but it is pure
> superstition. Ask yourself, how in the world the moon can effect the
> chemistry of what is going on in your picked kraut. There is the vacuum
> of space between your mixture and the moon!
>
> On Jun 7, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Roland McCormick wrote:
>
>> Another place where the moon enters in to the farming picture is in the
>> making of saur krout. The cabbage is cut up and placed in a barrel,
>> salted, and then pounded. This should be done on the new moon, and as
>> the moon gets larger the pickle rises on the krout until at the full
>> moon the krout is swimming in pickle. After the full moon it disappears,
>> then rises again as the moon increases in size. I presume that the
>> process is the same as the reason the moon influences the tides.
>> What I never understood is why, after you had let the krout go
>> through this process for a couple of months you could put the barrel
>> outdoors and let the krout freeze, and the pickle would never rise
>> again.
>>
>> Roland
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Alison Webster"
>> <dwebster@glinx.com
>> >
>> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 8:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] phases of the moon
>>
>
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