Ratner's Stuffed Cabbage

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1 large green cabbage
1 cup rice
1 carrot
1 bell pepper
2 stalks celery
1 onion
6 mushrooms
1/4 cup butter
1 egg
salt and pepper to taste
1 recipe stuffed green pepper sauce
1/4 cup raisins
2 Tbl honey

1) Core cabbage, cover with water, boil hard for 30 minutes, drain
and cool

2) Remove 18 leaves. Shred 2 cups of remaining cabbage

3) Cook rice until tender

4) Preheat oven to 350

5) Finely chop remaining vegetables (but not the cabbage) and sautee in
the butter until soft but not brown

6) Stir vegetables into rice along with the egg and salt and pepper

7) Place a heaping tablespoon of mixture on a cabbage leave and roll up

8) Spoon 1 cup of sauce into a 9x13 glass plan, place cabbage rolls seam
side down in pan

9) Sprinkle raisins, honey and shredded cabbage on top of the rolls

10) Pour remaining sauce over the cabbage rolls, cover with foil and
bake for 1.5 hours



Stuffed Pepper Sauce

28 oz tomato puree
1.5 cups water
0.5 cups sugar
1.5 Tbl salt
1 apple peeled, cored and grated
1 tsp sour salt

Combine all ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes