Sauerkraut. Pickled fermented white cabbage, usually cooked in pork or goose fat with onion and juniper berries, white whine or kirsch. It is crunchy and slightly acidic and can be eaten hot or cold.
A breed of sheep originating in the Netherlands. They are tall, muscular sheep with dark wool and strong, rather beautiful heads with a white blaze and no horns. The meat from Zwartbles sheep is very lean and sweet.
Black peppercorns, the fruit of a perennial vine with large leaves and white flowers. Green peppercorns are the unripe fruits picked early and pickled. Black peppercorns are picked just before they ripen and white peppercorns are the ripe, black peppercorns with the black skin flaked off. They are best kept whole and ground when required. Historically, pepper was one of the world's most important spices. Columbus sailed West, not East, in search of pepper in the East Indies. Instead he found the Americas and allspice.
