"My lost recipe, published in the Post way back when (late '70s or '80s) is for stuffed cabbage. I remember it as a Hungarian recipe. I don't recall the stuffing inside the cabbage — almost surely rice; quite possibly some meat — but I definitely remember the sauce. It was made with tomatoes (either diced or a tomato sauce, probably from a can), brown sugar and sour cream."

Pam Schaeffer, Grover



This recipe and its creator, Elmer Noud, were featured in the What's Cooking column in 1988. "It's delicious and has a unique sweet-sour flavor," he said in the article. "I think it's the brown sugar that makes it so good.''

Judy Smith of Arnold forwarded the recipe. "I used to make these cabbage rolls for my late mother-in-law; she loved them," she wrote.

Florence Greenberg and Elisabeth Perry, both of St. Louis, also sent recipes. We'll forward those to Schaeffer. None of the three recipes includes sour cream. If anyone finds such a recipe, please send it; we'll send that along, too.

And now, more requests:

— "I am trying to find a recipe for Mexican lasagna," wrote Frances Day of St. Louis. "I'm looking for one that uses no-boil lasagna noodles. I don't know the other ingredients, but one is ground beef."

— "At one time the Post-Dispatch published a recipe for a hot fruit compote," wrote Judith Cassilly of St. Louis. "It was composed of fresh sliced pineapple, oranges and prunes. It was seasoned with brown sugar, cinnamon and a little white wine."