vintagekitchen
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And what else would we eat on laundry day in Kentucky but a Kentucky Hot Pot?
Kentucky Hot Pot
serves 4 hungry people
1 small head cabbage, cut in 8 wedges
2 ears corn, each cut in half
2 onions, cut in thick slices
6 to 8 smallish yellow squash, each cut in half
8 to 12 breakfast sausages
First find your largest casserole dish. Now chuck it back in the cabinets, because it isn't large enough, and use a dutch oven with the handles removed just like Mom used to, lol. Preheat oven to 350. Brown sausages over high heat until browned. ( you dont need them properly cooked yet, just brown on the outside.
Pour a little of sausage grease in bottom of dutch oven, then cover bottome with half the cabbage, half the onions over that, then the corn. Toss in half the sausages. Next put squash, rest of the onion, and rest of the sausage. Sprinkle each layer of vegetables with seasoned salt as you go. Top with the other half of the cabbage, more seasoned salt, drizzle a little of the sausage grease over the top, cover and bake 2 to 3 hours. After 3 hours, if one can't stop yet to eat, turn off the oven and leave it there, still covered, until ready.
The trick is, don't lift the lid until your are ready to eat, the vegetables use their own moisture to cook in, rather than added water, so you dont want to release the steam. Perfect when one is trying to get laundry done.
The picture below is halfway through assembly, more pics when it is done.
Kentucky Hot Pot
serves 4 hungry people
1 small head cabbage, cut in 8 wedges
2 ears corn, each cut in half
2 onions, cut in thick slices
6 to 8 smallish yellow squash, each cut in half
8 to 12 breakfast sausages
First find your largest casserole dish. Now chuck it back in the cabinets, because it isn't large enough, and use a dutch oven with the handles removed just like Mom used to, lol. Preheat oven to 350. Brown sausages over high heat until browned. ( you dont need them properly cooked yet, just brown on the outside.
Pour a little of sausage grease in bottom of dutch oven, then cover bottome with half the cabbage, half the onions over that, then the corn. Toss in half the sausages. Next put squash, rest of the onion, and rest of the sausage. Sprinkle each layer of vegetables with seasoned salt as you go. Top with the other half of the cabbage, more seasoned salt, drizzle a little of the sausage grease over the top, cover and bake 2 to 3 hours. After 3 hours, if one can't stop yet to eat, turn off the oven and leave it there, still covered, until ready.
The trick is, don't lift the lid until your are ready to eat, the vegetables use their own moisture to cook in, rather than added water, so you dont want to release the steam. Perfect when one is trying to get laundry done.
The picture below is halfway through assembly, more pics when it is done.
