Recipe: Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake

This recipe was found on the net. not mine so don't know if it's any good.

However, there is another one (believed it's "tried") posted by Kelly here on TKl.
Or , option 2: type it when you search the net. i've located plenty this way!

Just type "Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake" when you do "searh" and it should appear on the first one.

ps: what is sauerkraut & what does it taste like?

eggy
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REC: Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake
Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake
from Helen Myhre's Norske Nook cookbook
This is a marvelous book by the way, full of
Grandma-style cookin' and lots of practical
tips and I recommend it to everyone.

for a 9x13 inch cake

2/3 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup cold water
1/2 cup homemade sauerkraut [recipe follows]
or store bought
1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 350 F. In a large bowl
blend the butter and sugar until creamy.
Add the eggs and stir in the flour, baking
powder, salt, cocoa, baking soda, and water.
Stir in the sauerkraut and the vanilla. Mix
well, and pour into a buttered 9x13 inch pan.
Bake 40 to 45 minutes, until your finger
doesn't leave a dent in it when you poke its
center, and cool.
Frost, if desired.

Homemade sauerkraut
as much cabbage as you have
1 teaspoon coarse salt [not iodized] per
clean scalded quart jar

clean and shred the cabbage
as you pack the cabbage into the quart jars,
add the salt.
pack the cabbage up to the neck of the jar,
pressing down with a wooden spoon as you go.
Juice will start to form once the salt is
added.
When the cabbage is stuffed in up to the
neck, cover the jars with rings and lids and
let them stand a few days, in a cool place,
to "work."
Store on a very cool shelf or in the
refrigerator until ready to use.

Helen says, in her book, that in the old
days, when Europeans first started settling
here in Wisconsin, each ethnic group tended
to stick together in their own settlements.
So you ended up with "Norske Valley, German
Valley, Swede Town, a Frenchman's Coulee..."
all within a short distance of each other.
And when the groups got together for social
occasions, well, it was many years before
they could speak the same language, and,
among other things, share recipes.
This long-awaited cake recipe came from two
German ladies in Helen's mother's Ladies'
Aid.
She also says that a man used to come to her
restaurant to eat a piece of this cake every
day until he found it that there was
sauerkraut in it. He hates sauerkraut so much
that just knowing it was there ruined it for
him. He'd thought it was coconut.