[NatureNS] phases of the moon

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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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