[Sca-cooks] Okay, anybody doing anything unusual for Thanksgiving?

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:50:38 -0500
  "Mairi Ceilidh" <jjterlouw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Would you be willing to share your recipe for the 
>dumplings that go in the
> sauerkraut and sausage dish?  I would be grateful, even 
>if my husband would
> rather be elsewhere.

as would my husband, oddly enough.  in his food formative 
years, his mother ate cold sauerkraut out of the aluminum 
can.  i believe the trauma has lasted until this day, 
altho he will eat a small serving of this sauerkraut on 
holidays.   which is when i make it, out of deference to 
his.... pain.

the dumplings are a vague recipe learned when i was young. 
 about a cup of flour, 1/4 tsp salt, black pepper to 
taste, 1 egg, 1/2 tsp baking powder, water until it looks 
right.  once i added caraway seeds and it tasted great, 
but looked like i used buggy flour. 8)  so add seeds to 
the kraut, not the dumplings.

the sauerkraut needs to be a bit soupy.   in a crock pot i 
mix 1 jar of sauerkraut, 1 small chopped onion, 1 small 
chopped apple, about 1 cup of white wine, a heaping 
tablespoon of brown sugar (not packed), fennel or caraway 
as you like, and lay some plain pork sausages or pork 
chops on top and cook until the sausage/pork is about 
done.  then i moosh (technical term) everything around and 
drop the dumpling batter on top, return the crock pot lid 
and cook until the dumplings are done.

it's a meal in itself.

cailte
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