Hi Rita, In your comment, "...sour cabbage leaves were available only in the winter. In the summer, the preserved cabbage leaves would start to cook and spoil. So, in the summer, they made Sarma with cooked fresh cabbage leaves and used a tomato based sauce.." you bring up an interesting point that never occurred to me. I always wondered why my mother did not make sauerkraut sarma, although she was an excellent cook. The reason might have been that, because we lived in an apartment in the city, she did not have the room to make sauerkraut. She made the sarma with fresh cabbage leaves and lots of tomato sauce, for dunking with bread, cooked on top of the stove, not in the oven. I still make it that way - my family loves it. Rose

Rose, We do our cabbage rolls both in oven or on the stove. The difference for us is how many we are cooking for. If it's just us it's on top of the stove wtih tomato juice cooked in it. If I do for a crowd - like open houses etc, than it goes in the oven with more of a sauce on top. Eve On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Rose Vetter <rosevetter@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rita, > > In your comment, "...sour cabbage leaves were available only in the winter. > In the summer, the preserved cabbage leaves would start to cook and spoil. > So, in the summer, they made Sarma with cooked fresh cabbage leaves and > used a tomato based sauce.." you bring up an interesting point that never > occurred to me. I always wondered why my mother did not make sauerkraut > sarma, although she was an excellent cook. The reason might have been > that, because we lived in an apartment in the city, she did not have the > room to make sauerkraut. She made the sarma with fresh cabbage leaves and > lots of tomato sauce, for dunking with bread, cooked on top of the stove, > not in the oven. I still make it that way - my family loves it. > > Rose > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Syrmia Regional Coordinator http://www.dvhh.org/syrmia