Crout

CHILD: And think a crout (ph) of tomato in one ... ❋ Unknown (2004)

But the trouble with sour crout is that sailors loathe it and have to be flogged to eat it. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

There is a pickled cabbage called ‘sour crout’ my cousin James imports from Bremen for some of the Bristol sea captains because it is cheaper than extract of malt, which is a very good antiscorbutic. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

He thereupon opened the door, received and entertained me with all the hospitality his poverty would admit of; regaled me with sour crout and some new laid eggs, the only provision he had, and clean straw with a kind of rug for a bed, he having no other for himself and wife. ❋ Sarah J. Richardson (N/A)

[Footnote 37: French pronunciation of sour-crout.] "I suppose you entertain a good many wishes in regard to your birthday?" asked the king, putting more cabbage on his own plate. ❋ F. [Translator] Jordan (N/A)

Sour-crout was much more to his taste as a preventive of scurvy, and in 1777, at the request of ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Germany, where the idea came from, and may it be stuffed into a barrel of sour-crout, not to come out till it is thoroughly rotted. ❋ Various (N/A)

Green tea and fried pork, honeycomb and salted salmon, pound cake and pickled cucumbers, stewed chickens and apple-tarts, maple molasses and pease-pudding, gingerbread and sour-crout, are to be found at almost every table. ❋ Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 (1885)

It's to be all pay, but dey eats up de sour - crout and de fresh pork, and drinks de coffee, and ven I looks for de monish, de gentlemens has disappeared down de rivver. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Only the pickle of the crout has run out fo the crock and made the cakes taste of the pickle. ❋ Franklin Rosenbery (1864)

Green tea and fried pork, honeycomb and salted salmon, pound cake and pickled cucumbers, stewed chickens and apple - tarts, maple molasses and pease-pudding, gingerbread and sour-crout, are to be found at almost every table. ❋ Canniff Haight (1863)

Sour crout, pickles, &c. are excellent anti-scorbutics, and should be eaten freely. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

English artist, two University students, and some cloth-merchants, returning from Frankfort fair, were busily occupied at a long table in the centre of the room, at an ample banquet, in which sour-crout, cherry-soup, and savoury sausages were not wanting. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

The enjoyment of his sour-crout, which he devoured with numerous and audible marks of approbation, rendered him heedless of the scrutiny to which he was subjected, but did not prevent him from continuing to read an old book open before him, in which he made marginal notes from time to time with a pencil that he carried behind his ear. ❋ Henry Murger (1841)

"Hang the expense!" said Schaunard to himself, "I have to have a good blow-out, a regular Belthazzar's feast in private life," and without more ado, he ordered a bowl of soup, half a plate of sour-crout, and two half stews, having observed that you get more for two halves than one whole one. ❋ Henry Murger (1841)

Marche St. Honoré to buy some sour crout, roast beef, and prunes for his dinner. ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)