Do you have a family recipe that was passed down from generation to generation in your family?
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October 26th, 2011
In my family a favorite recipe that has been passed down from my great grandmother who was from poland is for Golumpki’s and boy are they yummy.
Please feel free to share your favorite recipe that has been passed down the generation that you now make.
My recipe for Golumpki’s is below
1 lbs of salt pork
2 lbs of ground beef
2 cups of cooked rice
black pepper to taste
1 – 2 heads of cabbage depending on size and par boiled
fresh peeled tomatoes or 1 – 2 cans of whole tomatoes
Dice salt pork up into small pieces then put in a frying pan and cook till golden brown and crispy. Take cooked rice and hamburger and mix them together and add the salt pork to the rice and hamburger mixture. Put pepper to taste into the hamburger, rice and salt pork mixture.
Crush some tomatoes with your hands into the bottom of a roasting pan with a layer of cabbage leaves. Then begin rolling golumpki’s by taking one leaf of cabbage and a small amount of hamburger mixture and put into the middle. Wrap the cabbage around the mixture by taking the top flap where the bigger end of the spine of the cabbage is and fold down then take each side and fold in then take the bottom of the leaf and roll it around all pieces. Place it into the pan and repeat the process, when you fill the bottom layer then put some whole tomatoes crushed in your hands on top of the mixture and begin another layer. Keep making them until you are out of filling and/or leaves. Top all of them off with whole tomatoes crushed in your hands.
Take pan of golumpki’s and cover then place them into a 350 degree heated oven for about an hour or more if you have double or tripled the recipe.
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Cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving and other holidays.
There are no measurements.
Make a cake of cornbread (NO SUGAR).
Use a pork butt or shoulder to make pork stock
Crumble the cooled cornbread into a bowl.
Add plenty of finely diced onions and diced celery.
Add sage (I use fresh, but the traditional recipe uses dried.)
salt
pepper
Put in two eggs, lightly beaten.
Moisten the mixture with pork stock.
Pat mixture into a 13×9 x 2 (or a square) pan that has been buttered.
Cook in a 350 degree oven for 35–40 minutes until top is brown and crusty and dressing has set.
Serve with turkey and gravy. Yum!
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@tranquilsea mmmmm those sound yummy, I may have to try that recipe. Have you ever added chopped apple into it or even a little pumpkin?
@creative1 that’s the lovely thing about this recipe: you can add anything you want to it. I put in blueberries, bananas, raisins…you name it when the mood strikes. I use this same recipe for waffles too. If I want to make crepes I add a little more milk.
@tranquilsea now that sounds wonderful, now I have to make these up. I love sharing recipes with people and learning new ones.
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