New Years Lucky Pork and Sauerkraut. Just add the generously-seasoned pork shoulder, sauerkraut, thinly-sliced green apple, onion, brown sugar, apple cider and seasonings to the kitchen device. For those who live in central Pa., pork and sauerkraut is a New Year's tradition rooted in Pennsylvania Dutch culture. Though the exact origins of eating pork and sauerkraut together on New Year's Day is unknown, some credit the Pennsylvania Dutch for the tradition taking off in the United States. New Years Lucky Pork and Sauerkraut

You can cook New Years Lucky Pork and Sauerkraut using 7 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of New Years Lucky Pork and Sauerkraut
  1. Prepare 2 of lbs.all natural pork shoulder "country Ribs".
  2. You need 1 (27 oz.) of Can of @Fremont OH Silverfleece Sauerkraut.
  3. Prepare 2 of Granny Smith Apples peeled, cored, and rough chunks.
  4. You need 1 of medium white onion, sliced.
  5. It’s 5 teaspoons of brown sugar.
  6. Prepare of I/2 teaspoon of garlic powder.
  7. It’s of MInimal salt, extra pepper.

More than half of the people who took an LNP/LancasterOnline poll say they eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day. Champagne, noise makers and confetti are all New Year's Eve staples. But, in some parts of the country and the world, so are black-eyed peas, lentils, grapes and pickled herring. The New Year's Day meal, popular in Western Pennsylvania, comes from the Pennsylvania Dutch, who brought the Germanic tradition of eating pork and sauerkraut with them to America.

New Years Lucky Pork and Sauerkraut instructions
  1. Mix everything quite powerfully and pernicious in. Your hand. Knead the ingredients in the crocken ware pot. Let sit till room temperature, then activate the electricity for 12 hours, on low..

Why Pork and Sauerkraut on New Years for Good Luck? Well, I'm told that back in the day having a pig meant a family was good to go for the winter. And since cabbage is a fall crop it was often canned or pickled to use in the winter. Pork, full of richness and fat, now symbolizes wealth and prosperity. A popular lucky New Year's Day dish in Germany is pork and sauerkraut, promising as much luck as the many strands in the cabbage.