"Pigs in a Blanket"

[Buttoneer]

I grew up as a dish with ground beef (or pork) with tomato sauce and rice wrapped in cabbage. Friends of mine insist it's little smokies (sausages) wrapped in Pillsbury crescent rolls.

What's your definition?

[Probatim]

1. I couldn't get it past my nose but in SW PA, it's the former.

[Ocelot II]

2. Pigs in a blanket are *definitely* sausages wrapped in crescent rolls

or similar pastry. How can ground beef and rice be the pig and the cabbage the blanket?

[UTUSN]

22. Yip, I had German landlord couple from Argentina, introduced to my family

and hosted OUR food to them and asked them what German food was and they said pigs/blanket, which was sausage wrapped in something like (pancakes?).

Plus, fun fact, they had an old man hidden away who might have been a Nazi fugitive - I wasn't sharply "aware" of things at the time.

[debm55]

3. I live in western PA. Pigs in a blanket were small sausage wrapped in a crescent roll. Stuffed cabbage was a mixture

of beef, pork, or both with rice wrapped in cabbage leaves covered in sauce . There is a name for it, but I forget it right now.

[COL Mustard]

23. I think you're thinking of

Halupki. See below. My first ex-wife grew up in PA and I got to know a lot about Eastern European cuisine. The food was great, the relationship not so much.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220002/halupki-stuffed-cabbage/

[Maraya1969]

4. Stuffed cabbage rolls. We all loved them in my family.

[BOSSHOG]

5. The Arkansas Razorback offense this season

[Phoenix61]

6. Hot dogs wrapped in crescent dinner rolls. nt

[multigraincracker]

7. That's the way my first mother in law

made them. She also made prune perioggies. (Sp). Haven’t had those in over 40 years.

[dai13sy]

8. Piggies

My Grandma made them her own special recipe - regular size hot dogs. She liked the hot dogs that would plump and then Bisquick dough with relish mixed in to wrap the dog . They were weird and wonderful

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Golumpki Is what you described. Pigs in a blanket are little wieners in pastry. 😋

[debm55]

14. Thank you, Floyd, I knew there was another name for them. Golumpki is what I was thinking but couldn't remember.

[2naSalit]

10. We rarely had them...

But it was either breakfast link sausage wrapped in dough of some kind or, later, she started making them with hot dogs.

She also made stuffed cabbage or bell peepers with the same meat/rice mixture and tomato based sauce.

[Hekate]

13. My Mom called her cabbage rolls "porcupines" because the rice poked out. My MIL's recipe...

….was almost the same, but she called them Holupchas.

[2naSalit]

17. In my mom's menu...

Porcupines were the meat/rice stuff formed into meat balls no cabbage, no peppers, just sauce and smashed spuds. Green beans, which we would actually eat, on the side. I recall that my brother and I protested the bitter flavor of peppers or cabbage, we thought it was, she had to come up with a compromise.

[debm55]

19. We had the mashed potatoes too and the red sauce would be put on top as a gravy.

[2naSalit]

20. That part...

Always made me cringe and I had to keep the red stuff off my potatoes because I had butter on those and the red stuff ruined it.

[debm55]

15. Yes, it was the same meat mixture, and sauce. The only difference was one was stuffed in a bell pepper and the other a

other a cabbage leaf. Stuffed cabbage takes longer to cook as you have to boil the head of cabbage and when done role the raw mixture in and then cook in the oven. Very time consuming. However, I did like them better then stuffed peppers. I hate peppers. I used to take out the meat and throw away the pepper.

[2naSalit]

18. My brother and I...

Used to complain about the cooked peppers and cabbage so she would make meatballs with the meat/rice business and serve with the sauce and other sides that we would eat.

Now I like them, I won't make them but if they are served somewhere that I happen to be eating, I would consider them.

[duckworth969]

11. little smokies

dippable & fun!

[debm55]

16. Are they the same as Viena sausage?

[dai13sy]

28. Yes

I would always get excited over the little sausages bur the big ones my Mom bought at the butcher put me right over the moon. Add on the yummy home made mustard and sauerkraut and I was in heaven

[Hekate]

12. Regular hot dogs wrapped in Bisquick dough & cooked in the oven. Great treat for the kids' dinner!

[Bristlecone]

21. Same as yours. My grandmother made them

My Mom, now my sister.

[getagrip_already]

32. your mom is now your sister? 23 and me?

this world is so confusing.

[Hotler]

24. Link breakfast sausage wrapped in a pancake. Duh!

[rogerballard]

25. My dear Mother made it all the time

Gosh she was a great cook.

[Lunabell]

26. I've never heard of your version.

To me, that is stuffed cabbage. The smokies or hot dogs wrapped in a dough and baked is what we called pigs in a blanket.

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. I must ask, any good recipes for making stuffed peppers? I usually buy the frozen made versions, but

I'm thinking of making 4, freezing 2 for later.

[Duncanpup]

29. Stuffed cabbage rolls

[LuckyCharms]

30. Halupki

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220002/halupki-stuffed-cabbage/

[debm55]

34. Ding, ding Ding, That's what we called it--halupki. Golumpki is the same but it is what the Polish call it.

[Emile]

31. Isn't a corn dog a pig in a blanket?

[debm55]

35. No, it's a corn dog

[getagrip_already]

33. how about....

A polish sausage, wrappend in bacon, cooked thoruoghly, then wrapped in cheese, dipped in beer batter, then deep fried.

I have no idea what that would be called, but I have a feeling it would sell well at a midwestern state fair,

[pansypoo53219]

36. hot dogs in crecent rools.

[laurieu]

37. Growing up in Pittsburgh

We called ground beef wrapped in cabbage, "Pigs in the Blanket". Maybe it's an old fashioned thing. This was like 60 years ago. Were there even Pillsbury crescent rolls back then?