Forest Ranch is still there. Was that the 2016 fire? We used to drive up hiway 32 to go to Mt. Lassen. It is a beautiful place up there.
I was made aware of the many different meanings of “pigs in a blanket” at a young age. Though my father never mentioned cabbage rolls. He is PA Dutch. Even our Dutch Pantry’s call them cabbage rolls.From the Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book of Fine Old Recipes copyright 1936
My mother wrote the Pigs in a Blanket on there long before giving me the cookbook back in the late 1960s. My mother's version follows.
Cabbage Rolls
Cabbage
Ground Meat (beef and pork mixed)
onion - diced
Rice - cooked
Salt
Pepper
1 large can tomato juice
a little bit of garlic salt (pinch)
Brown sugar
Mix together ground meat, onion and rice and season with salt, pepper and garlic salt and form into meatballs.
Drop head of cabbage into boiling water to wilt leaves. Cut leaves off and wrap around meatballs.
Place in pan. Pour tomato juice over cabbage rolls until they are covered. Sprinkle a little brown sugar over the cabbage rolls.
Bake at 350° F. until done.
Our neighbor's version
Cabbage Rolls
Cabbage
Ground Meat & onion
Rice
Egg
Salt
Pepper
½ tomato juice & ½ water
Cook cabbage leaves till tender
Cook rice then mix with raw meat
Season with salt and pepper
Add egg to meat & rice
When cabbage is tender enough to roll meat in
Use a tablespoon of meat for each leaf.
Place in pan. Pour tomato juice over cabbage
Rolls until they are covered.
Put in oven for about 6-8 hours at 200 or 250 degrees
Not that they know anything about the food. I about killed a waitress when I mentioned Scrapple. It wasn’t on the menu, and I asked why (it used to be). I told her what it was. 
She was horrified!
Thanks!From the Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book of Fine Old Recipes copyright 1936
My mother wrote the Pigs in a Blanket on there long before giving me the cookbook back in the late 1960s. My mother's version follows.
Cabbage Rolls
Cabbage
Ground Meat (beef and pork mixed)
onion - diced
Rice - cooked
Salt
Pepper
1 large can tomato juice
a little bit of garlic salt (pinch)
Brown sugar
Mix together ground meat, onion and rice and season with salt, pepper and garlic salt and form into meatballs.
Drop head of cabbage into boiling water to wilt leaves. Cut leaves off and wrap around meatballs.
Place in pan. Pour tomato juice over cabbage rolls until they are covered. Sprinkle a little brown sugar over the cabbage rolls.
Bake at 350° F. until done.
Our neighbor's version
Cabbage Rolls
Cabbage
Ground Meat & onion
Rice
Egg
Salt
Pepper
½ tomato juice & ½ water
Cook cabbage leaves till tender
Cook rice then mix with raw meat
Season with salt and pepper
Add egg to meat & rice
When cabbage is tender enough to roll meat in
Use a tablespoon of meat for each leaf.
Place in pan. Pour tomato juice over cabbage
Rolls until they are covered.
Put in oven for about 6-8 hours at 200 or 250 degrees
It is sad that these older foods are fading away!I was made aware of the many different meanings of “pigs in a blanket” at a young age. Though my father never mentioned cabbage rolls. He is PA Dutch. Even our Dutch Pantry’s call them cabbage rolls.
I was made aware of the many different meanings of “pigs in a blanket” at a young age. Though my father never mentioned cabbage rolls. He is PA Dutch. Even our Dutch Pantry’s call them cabbage rolls.
