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REC Bohemian Pork Roast Dinner 7748On Fri 14 Oct 2005 08:28:39p, Isaac Wingfield wrote in rec.food.cooking: There are various recipes for halushky, but most are quite similar...
If someone is familiar with this recipe and I got something wrong, please correct me. I will be most grateful for such help. :o)
I have not made these for a long time, but I believe I still remember how to do it.
Semmelknoedeln Bread Dumplings. (A Semmel is a Kaiser roll, but any stale plain white bread will do. Do not use sourdough.)
4 stale large rolls, broken into pieces or diced
2 large eggs, beaten (for a richer dumpling, use two eggs and one yolk)
1 oz melted butter
1-4 cup milk or water
Mix the melted butter with the eggs and the milk and pour over the bread cubes. When all the liquid has been absorbed, form the dough into tennis ball sized dumplings and place gently into boiling and salted water. If the dough seems too wet, squeeze out some of the liquid before you form the dumplings. If the dough seems too dry, add more milk or water.
REC Bohemian Pork Roast Dinner 7749I'm not sure there IS a recipe for halushky and fried cabbage, Isaac. You just make it. :-) I've posted this before. I may have posted something in August, 2004, after a visit...
Boil gently for about 30 minutes.
If you use the dumplings as a side dish, slice them and serve.
If you use the dumplings as a main dish, fry unflavored breadcrumbs in butter, slice the dumplings and sprinkle with the crumbs. Traditionally, this is served with cucumber salad.
Another way to cook these dumplings is to form the uncooked dough into a long roll of desired diameter, place into a large cotton napkin which has been moistened with cold water, fold and tie the ends loosely and place into the boiling water. It makes for more uniform slices when cut. These dumplings are called "Serviettenknoedeln", Napkin Dumplings.
