Sauerkraut apples and white wine are added in popular variations. Traditionally it is served warm, with pork (e.g. "eisbein", "schweinshaxe", "Kassler") or sausages (smoked or fried sausages, "Frankfurter Würstchen", Vienna sausages, black pudding), accompanied typically by roasted or steamed potatoes or dumplings ("knödel" or "schupfnudel"). Similar recipes are common in other Central European cuisines. The Czech national dish "vepřo knedlo zelo" consists of roast pork with "knedliky" and sauerkraut. In France, sauerkraut is the main ingredient of the Alsatian meal "choucroute garnie" (French for "dressed sauerkraut"), sauerkraut with sausages (Strasbourg sausages, smoked Morteau or Montbéliard sausages), charcuterie (bacon, ham, etc.), and
Hungarian sausages outside on the fall day when a pig was slaughtered. The sausage is then hung overnight to allow the flavors to meld and some of the grease to drip out. It is now ready to be used fresh and unsmoked. Fresh sausages may have additional ingredients like liver, mushroom, bread, rice, lemon juice, eggs, cream or milk. The unsmoked sausages are typically roasted with sauerkraut or red or green cabbage, and served with mashed potatoes. The dry sausages are cold smoked and hung to cure before use. "Kolbász" is cooked Hungarian sausage, largely influenced by Polish kielbasa and is usually