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clean and shred the cabbage, cube the meat into mouth sized pieces, add into a pot with the water, add stockcube, salt, pepper and cumin. It was however taken long time ago to Ireland by German settlers.. See recipes for Slow cooker red cabbage too.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sig's rags and fleas( german cabbage and meat broth) using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make sig's Rags and Fleas( German Cabbage and Meat Broth):

1. Take Rags and Fleas
2. Take 1 For the Rags and Fleas takes its name from the rag resembling torn cabbage and the cumin seeds that look like fleas. :-)
3. Make ready 1 This dish is traditionally eaten in Hessen in Germany. It was however taken long time ago to Ireland by German settlers. Legend has it that this dish is forerunner of Irish Stew.
4. Make ready 500 grams mutton cubed, but lamb or beef can be used
5. Take 1 kg cabbage of choice, shredded or torn finely
6. Take 1 vegetable stock cube
7. Make ready 1 tbsp cumin seeds
8. Take 1 good pinch of salt (optional)
9. Prepare 1 pinch of fresh ground black pepper or cayenne pepper
10. Take 1/4 liter of water
11. Take little dumplings known as snowballs
12. Get 15 waxy not softboiling potatoes
13. Take 1 onion chopped very finely
14. Get 1 small bunch of parsley,chopped very finely
15. Make ready 125 grams of softened butter
16. Get 4 eggs
17. Take 1 -2 tablespoons of plain flour
18. Make ready 1 pinch each salt, pepper, nutmeg and marjoram

Cut cabbage in quarters, remove core, and shred (use knife or mandolin). Form each of the portions in the shape of a small meat loaf and wrap in the large cabbage leaves. Make sure that the meat is completely wrapped with two or three layers of cabbage leaves. Note: (Thin out the thick vein from the cabbage this way it will be easier to roll the leaves.) Mix thoroughly minced meat, cut bacon, finely minced onions, soaked rolls and cabbage.

Instructions to make sig's Rags and Fleas( German Cabbage and Meat Broth):

1. clean and shred the cabbage, cube the meat into mouth sized pieces, add into a pot with the water, add stockcube, salt, pepper and cumin.Simmer slowly for 2 hours until meat is tender. ( or use your crockpot on low to medium)
2. season with salt, pepper if needed and add more cumin seeds if liked
3. serve with rustic bread , a cold lager or pilsner goes down well with this
4. for the dumplings. Normally these are made with white potatoes but I needed to use up some purple potatoes, they came out this colour by the time I added all ingredients.
5. boil potatoes the day before eating in their skins and peel.The next day mash them down preferably through a potato ricer.
6. gently heat the butter and soften onions and parsley for about 5 minutes. Add this to the potatoes. First add one egg one after the other stirring it in. Add flour, stir in, add herbs and spices, stir in well.
7. boil in a large pot salted water with wet hands make little balls drop them gently into simmering water for about 15 minutes, serve with Rags and Fleas or any other stew like dish.

If necessary, add a bit of the water in which the cabbage was boiled. Put the mixture in a soufflee form, sprinkle some flour and butter flakes over it. The usual ways cabbage is served is raw, steamed, pickled, stewed, roasted, sautéed or braised. Savoy cabbage has a milder taste and can easily be substituted for the green or white cabbages that are used for most German recipes. Delicious cooked cabbage served with Schweinebraten (German roast pork) and Knoedel (dumplings).

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