Mom Lives on in Her Recipes

Traditional foods taste like love

Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

While we’re staying with my dad, he asked me to make some of my mom’s traditional Hungarian recipes. So today I made Kapusta, or cabbage rolls, from her grandmother’s recipe.

There were a few challenges. How much is 3/4 of a cheese glass? What’s a modern equivalent of “rendering fat"? (I went with butter.)