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Ed Pawlowski

On 12/6/2018 9:39 PM, wrote:
> We make these at Christmas. I make a patch of bread and roll it out and cut little circles. Fill with meat mixture. Pinch shut and deep fry.
> Filling
> Equal parts of
> Cooked chicken ground in food processor
> CookedPicnic shoulder ham ground in food processor
> Several onions grounddepending on how much meat you have
> Hard boiled eggs ground
> Salt pepper and celery seed to taste
> I save some stock from the ham and add a few tablespoons to the meat mixture just to make it spicy but not too wet.
> Very time consuming but well worth it. We make about 12 dozen for Christmas and freeze them. Heat in oven in foil wrap.
>
I like the filling mix. When my grandmother was alive she made a beef
mixture for pierogies. It was a group effort rolling out the dough,
cutting the circles, and stuffing.