I grew up having corned beef and cabbage on New Year's Day but my mother, and her mother and her mother, washed silver coins and poked them down into the cabbage. If you had money in your cabbage on your plate, then you'd be prosperous in the New Year. I was always told this was German but I can't find anything to confirm this.
I grew up having corned beef and cabbage on New Year's Day but my mother, and her mother and her mother, washed silver coins and poked them down into the cabbage. If you had money in your cabbage on your plate, then you'd be prosperous in the New Year. I was always told this was German but I can't find anything to confirm this.