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My mom used to make these balls of dough filled with meat and cabbage that I absolutely loved and could hardly ever get her to make because they are a lot of work. I gleaned a tenative recipe from her that I wrote down, verbatim, like this:
turker burger - brown w/ salt/pepper/garlic powder
cut up onion
cut up cabbage
put in skillet w/ meat
cook until soft
roll mix in dough (fold & pinch)
So when I dragged this gibberish out of my recipe book it was oh so much help. Cooking with my mom wasn't learn a recipe, it was learn by observation. I've never been really good at this. (Except for my killer mac n cheese!)
The above instructions sound rather straight forward and I thought this was an easy job... Until I started working with the dough. This is why "bakers" have a profession all their own. I bought premade frozen dinner rolls because they are already in a ball and I let them sit out and rise while I was at work. I even covered the dish with a wet towel like I vaguely remember my mom doing.
I came home and the rolls looked partially cooked. Very large and crusty on the outside. This is not what I was going for. So I de-thawed some more rolls, this time only for the recommended 3-4 hours. Okay, so all is well and I had the meat and the cabbage ready to go but I picked up the dough and I didn't know what the heck to do with it. Don't you knead dough? So I started to roll the dough in my hands, pretty much just smearing it all over my palms and not creating a thick, pliable, workable mass.
I was hungry and didn't want to start over, so I gently flattened one ball, dumped on some meat and cabbage, and covered it with another ball and folded the edges together. Voila. My closest approximation of my mom's "krautburgers." They tasted okay.
