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    New Years Day Dinner
    Prep: 24 hours Cook: 24 hours Servings: 500
    by Glenn
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    It is traditional in the Pennsylvania Dutch communities to eat sauerkraut on the first day of the year. Some suggest that it is for good luck, others simply enjoy the tradition. But under the column marked "it can't hurt" lets have pork and sauerkraut for the main meal of the day on January 1.

    Ingredients

    • Pork-Roast, Chops, Flank or Loin
    • Sauerkraut
    • Beer (not light or lite--a real beer)
    • Potatoes

    Directions

    1. At noon on Dec. 31 put Pork and Sauerkraut into a crock pot or slow cooker set on LOW.
    2. After 2 p.m. drain two cups of liquid and add one bottle of beer.
    3. When you wake up on Jan. 1, soak, cut and cream potatoes (or mix up a box or two of instant mashed potatoes).
    4. Serve.

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    Reviews

    • Glenn
      Glenn
      I've already been asked, "Why the beer?" I'm an old Pennsylvania Dutchman and take the sauer in sauerkraut seriously. To me it is not sauerkraut unless it makes you pucker--otherwise it's just boiled cabbage. Beer (real beer) adds the extra pucker. I guess the luck thing still works if you have boiled cabbage and call it sauerkraut.
      • Jann from PA
        Jann from PA
        I grew up in the same place, and I prefer a milder sauerkraut (no it is not the same as boiled cabbage). No need for the beer, in my humble opinion. My husband used to drink a beer with the meal. AT least you don't ruin it by adding sugar, as in some recipes. We used to make it first thing in the morning, to give it a couple of hours in the oven. But, if want to do it in a crockpot, that would be OK, too. Regardless of how you prefer to do it, the pork is considered good luck in many cultures, so it traditional.

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