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Index of Subjects 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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