Arthurdale Heritage Recipes: New Year Pork & Kraut Rolls

This recipe for New Year Pork and Sausage Rolls is from the Preston County Homemakers Mountain Heritage Recipes cookbook, 1974. Annabelle Urbas Mayor’s recipe (Arthurdale Homesteader).

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lb. sausage or ground pork
  • 1/2 lb. ground beef
  • 1 cup uncooked rice
  • 1 medium cabbage
  • 1 jar of sauerkraut
  • 1 medium onion – chopped
  • 1 can red sauce of your choice!
  • salt and pepper to taste

Directions

  1. Peel leaves off cabbage
  2. Boil 1 quart of water
  3. Add cabbage leaves to boiling water, boil until soft
  4. While cabbage boils – place kraut in the bottom of a pot
  5. Mix sausage & ground beef together
  6. Chop onion – add to meat mixture
  7. Add rice to meat and onions – mix well
  8. Once cabbage is soft, remove from boiling water – let cool!
  9. Once cooled, take one leaf and fill with a heaping scoop of meat
  10. Roll tight – place on top of kraut
  11. Once all leaves are rolled, pour enough water over cabbage rolls (2/3 covered)
  12. Add red sauce in with the water over the rolls
  13. Cover, bring the pot to a boil and then “slow boil” for 1 hr. and 30 mins.
  14. Serve & Enjoy!

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From Left to Right: Annabelle in her kitchen on Q-18 with her son Kevin in 1954, Annabelle met FDR when she graduated from AHS in 1938. She is standing directly to the right of FDR, looking down.