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Vegetables from Dobrá Voda u Hořic, Hradec Králové region, Czech Republic

Dobrovodské kysané zelí (Dobrá Voda sauerkraut)Dobrovodské zelí

White or red cabbage of the local Pour varieties is shredded, mixed with salt and caraway only, and tamped into deep pools to ferment for six to eight weeks. Many households around Dobrá Voda buy shredded cabbage and ferment it at home.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Dobrovodské kysané zelí itself.

DocumentedVegetables28 days – 56 days

Recipe

Amounts from a sourceThe producer's home recipe for a 5 L crock. Its table scales up to 65 kg cabbage, 1000 g salt, 100 g caraway and 750 g onion for a 50 L crock.
White head cabbage6.5 kg (or 5.5 kg ready-shredded)[zd-recipe]
Table salt100 g[zd-recipe]
Whole caraway10 g[zd-recipe]
Onion75 gIn the home recipe only; the factory uses only salt and caraway[zd-recipe][zd-tech]

Total time across the recorded steps: 28 days – 56 days

Start
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What changes: Cleaned, cored heads are shredded into fine strips

Step 1 of 4
Core and shred the cabbage
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

In the factory, heads are harvested by combine, cleaned and cored on a line, and the shredded cabbage goes by belt to the fermenting pool.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

White or red cabbage of the local Pour varieties is shredded, mixed with salt and caraway only, and tamped into deep pools to ferment for six to eight weeks. Many households around Dobrá Voda buy shredded cabbage and ferment it at home. Made in 4 steps over 28 days – 56 days. The longest step, ferment under its juice, takes 28–56 days (Zemědělské družstvo Podchlumí Dobrá Voda (pro…) and runs at 12–15 °C (Zemědělské družstvo Podchlumí Dobrá Voda (pro…).

Key numbers
Main step28–56 daysReported[zd-tech][zd-recipe]Ferment under its juice
Temperature12–15 °CReported[zd-recipe]Ferment under its juice

What makes this one different

Dobrovodské zelí is made from cabbage varieties bred in the village itself and uses only salt and caraway. It is a regional brand and trademark, not an EU protected name.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Red Dobrovodské kysané zelíMade from the red variety Pourovo červené (1960).

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

The varieties were bred in 1939 at the agricultural school in Hořice by Jaroslav Pour (1914–1995), a Dobrá Voda native, and given free to the state. They are registered with ÚKZÚZ and in the EU common vegetable catalogue. Sauerkraut has been made in Dobrá Voda since the 1930s, in new plant since 1984, from 20–30 ha of directly sown cabbage.

  1. [cswiki] Czech Wikipedia, Dobrovodské zelí, read 2026-10wiki
  2. [zd-tech] Zemědělské družstvo Podchlumí Dobrá Voda (producer), Technologie, Historie and product pages, read 2026-10web
  3. [zd-recipe] Zemědělské družstvo Podchlumí Dobrá Voda (producer), Domácí kysané zelí (home recipe), read 2026-10web