1 lb. sausage meat
1/2 onion, chopped
2 c. cooked chopped cabbage
Salt to taste
2 c. white sauce

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook the sausage in a skillet breaking up with fork until no longer pink. Transfer to a bowl. Add chopped onion to sausage drippings in skillet and cook until limp. Add to the meat and mix well. Spread meat in bottom of pan. Cover with cabbage, add salt to taste. Cover with sauce (below) and bake 30-40 minutes or until bubbling hot. Inspired by Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows.

BASIC WHITE SAUCE (makes one cup) :
2 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. flour
1 c. milk, heated
Salt
Freshly ground pepper

Melt butter in heavy-gauge saucepan. Stir in flour and cook stirring constantly until the paste cooks and bubbles a bit - about 2 minutes. Add the hot milk continuing to stir as the sauce thickens. Bring to a boil. Add salt and pepper to taste, lower heat and continue cooking and stirring 2 or 3 minutes longer. Remove from heat. Enjoy.