Mim's Cabbage Rolls

1 cabbage head

1 pound ground beef

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 cup rice --uncooked

1/4 cup cold water

2 egg

1 can tomatoes -- peeled in juice

-- --(16 oz.) crushed 1 can tomato sauce -- (8 oz.)

4 tablespoons brown sugar

1 tablespoon lemon juice

salt -- to taste pepper -- to taste 1 freezer bag -- jumbo

Separate cabbage into leaves; stack loosely in large skillet and add 1 " w ater. Cover and steam cabbage leaves until soft. Cool. Combine ground beef, nut meg, rice, water and eggs. Place 1/4 cup meat mixture in the center of each lea f; roll up and place seam side down in baking pan. To make sauce, mash canned t omatoes and mix with tomato sauce. Add brown sugar, lemon juice, salt and peppe r. Pour over cabbage rolls. To freeze: cover pan with aluminum foil. Flash free ze; place casserole inside freezer ba g. To prepare: thaw casserole completely before cooking. Bake covered dish in 4 00-degree oven for 1 hour; remove cover and bake 15 minutes more.

Serving Ideas : Scratch Biscuits, Fruit Salad

NOTES : A meal-in-one!

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