spare ribs and cabbage - the two step recipe

Spokane, WA
Updated on Oct 17, 2011

Someone asked me for this recipe....Is it you? Barb? I finally found it at the bottom of me barrel. Better late than never. eh? I have made it many times. Friends like it. Naturally with my sauerkraut bread,it is a "Feast for the Gods"!

prep time 15 Min
cook time 2 Hr
method ---
yield 4-5 or 2 hungry men

Ingredients

  • 3 pounds pork spare ribs
  • 2 - small heads of cabbage
  • 1 - diced onion
  • 1 - diced carrot
  • 1/4 - diced celery celery
  • 1 - diced parsley root
  • - salt & pepper
  • 2 teaspoons flour
  • tablespoon butter
  • 1/2 - bouillon cube , optional

How To Make spare ribs and cabbage - the two step recipe

  • Step 1
    Cover meat with cold water in a large saucepan, bring to a simmer, remove scum. Simmer uncovered 1/2 hour. Quarter cabbage and parboil in salted water, drain. Add diced onion and vegetables to meat. Season with salt & pepper to taste and continue simmering ribs & other ingredients in a tightly covered pot about 1 hour or until ribs are tender. Melt butter and blend in flour, , dilute with a little of the meat stock. Discard the vegetables in the pot before adding butter & flour mix. Pour over meat , and cabbage and simmer covered 1/2 hour more.
  • Step 2
    Recipe is from Germany 1970. When I was in Colblintz, Germany My first grandson Mark, was born there.

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Category: Pork
Category: Ribs
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Keyword: #ribs
Keyword: #spare

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