grandma edna's christmas cabbage

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 large head cabbage
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup warm milk
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 15 saltine crackers, crumbled
• salt and ground black pepper to taste

Recipe

Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ready Time: 1 hr 30 mins


• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c).
• heat 6 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion in the melted butter until lightly browned, 10 to 15 minutes.
• remove and set aside several large leaves of cabbage. core cabbage and cut into very fine shreds. mix cooked onion, chopped cabbage, eggs, and milk together in bowl; transfer mixture to a 9x13-inch casserole dish. cover mixture with reserved whole cabbage leaves.
• bake in the preheated oven until cabbage mixture is cooked through and set, about 50 minutes.
• heat 2 tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir cracker crumbs in the melted butter until lightly browned, about 5 minutes.
• remove cabbage leaves from top of casserole dish and sprinkle cabbage-egg mixture with buttered cracker crumbs.
• bake in the preheated oven until topping is browned, about 10 more minutes. season with salt and black pepper.