My mother in law died 3 years ago at 82,very sudden.I still miss her.The last Kraut I made was helping her.She would grade the cabbage put it in a churn.She would always go out side find a fairly good size rock,wash it and then put a plate turned upside down over the Kraut,then put the rock on top of the plate.I never asked, just knew it was part of the progress.I guess now that I think of it,it was to stop the cabbage from rising out of the brine water so it would not turn dark.You talk about good.We would all raid the Kraut Churn as the Kraut was working 3-4 days into the progress.Wow nothing like that good salty cabbage taste. My grandmother used to have homemade butter.Sometimes she would have yellow butter & sometimes white.Granny said it was according to the cow.Not sure that is right.She might have just answering a child's question to get her out of her hair.My favorite was the white butter,just had a different taste.It was wonderful with molasses & biscuits.Brings back wonderful memories of my childhood.Running in Granny's door straight to her side board to see if there was anything sweet.If nothing else,there was always molasses and left over biscuits or I loved it on left over cornbread.Shows how times have changed.I still make biscuits when the kids come over but just for me and my husband I use the frozen ones.Granny would not know what to think of frozen biscuits and would scold me good for using them.She died in 1976