Boiled meatballs ARE DELICIOUS! There are so many possibilities, and the boiling liquid makes a great soup stock. The basic recipe is: Ground pork Spices Eggs Salt Water to boil them in This can be varied at will. I'll list some excellent variants we have tried, below. Procedure: mix ingredients. Make small balls, drop into boiling water. When done, fish out, do next batch. NOTE! If you have access to it, pre-boiled (for at least 20 minutes) seawater is a GREAT base for this, just don't add any salt to the meatballs. Meatballs #1 Ingredients: Ground pork Ground coriander Salt Eggs Meatballs #2 (medieval spices) Ingredients: 3-5 lb ground pork 4 eggs Poudre forte (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, black pepper) Salt (also excellent with dried currents in them) Meatballs #3 Ingredients: ground pork finely chopped onions or leeks ground, dry mustard salt We served them with a sauce of sour cream mixed with coarse mustard (these are REALLY good) Here are some ideas for what to do with the left-over pork-broth. Add leeks and some torn up bits of the meatballs to make soup. Boil cabbage in the liquid, no butter needed to serve. |