On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 10:15:23 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/10/2013 8:44 AM, wrote:
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> > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:56:50 -0800 (PST), A Moose in Love
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> >> How do they make them? To put a whole cabbage in a pot, then take off a couple of leaves, then back into the pot etc. That would be very very time consuming for a commercial outfit.
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> > They don't do it that way! If I am making them I put the cabbage in
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> > the freezer for half an hour, leaves go limp and totally manageable.
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> That's a good tip, thanks! I haven't made cabbage rolls in a long time,
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> probably because the leaves are such a PITA. I've never seen cabbage
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> rolls in a restaurant (if that's what the OP is talking about when they
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> say "commercial").

My folks had a restaurant, and made their own cabbage rolls. It was much work. I was talking about cabbage rolls you find in a boxed meat store, usually frozen.