This took me part of the day Saturday. I just got a craving for them and had to make them.
Called Kraut Brot and got the recipe from a long ago friend.
Shred cabbage and try not to scrape your knuckles
Add a chopped up onion and cook slowly for two hours
Meanwhile--set out two loaves of frozen bread to thaw
Drain cabbage and onion mixture
Brown ground beef
Drain and combine with cabbage mixture and let cool
Cut loaves into 5 sections.
Roll out into circle
Put a nice amount of mixture on bread
Stretch bread around mixture and seal edges
350 degrees for 35 minutes
Onto cooling rack
KRAUT BROT
1 medium cabbage
1 pound ground beef
2 medium onions
2 loaves of frozen bread
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
3 tsp. garlic powder
Take two loaves frozen bread out
of freezer and allow to sit.
Shred cabbage and cook (on
medium low) with diced onions in 2 Tbls. bacon grease or butter for 2 hours, in
covered Dutch oven pot.
Check every half hour and
stir.
Drain in colander.
Brown ground beef in same pot
and add to colander cabbage mixture to drain.
Return mixture to pot, add
salt, pepper, garlic powder and cool.
Cut loaves into 5 sections
each.
Flatten on floured board and
place mound of mixture on each section.
Stretch dough over mixture, fold
over and seal edges of bread.
Bake on ungreased cookie
sheet at 3500 for 35 minutes or until brown.
Remove to cooling rack and baste
tops with butter and garlic powder.
Eat while hot or cool
completely and put in freezer in gallon freezer bags.
To re-heat, place in bowl,
heat for 6 minutes on timed defrost in Microwave—add more butter on the bread.
