Grandma Edna'S Christmas Cabbage - cooking recipe

Ingredients

6 tablespoons butter
1 large onion, chopped
1 large head cabbage
4 eggs, beaten
1 cup warm milk
2 tablespoons butter
15 saltine crackers, crumbled
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Heat 6 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion in the melted butter until lightly browned, 10 to 15 minutes.
Remove and set aside several large leaves of cabbage. Core cabbage and cut into very fine shreds. Mix cooked onion, chopped cabbage, eggs, and milk together in bowl; transfer mixture to a 9x13-inch casserole dish. Cover mixture with reserved whole cabbage leaves.
Bake in the preheated oven until cabbage mixture is cooked through and set, about 50 minutes.
Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir cracker crumbs in the melted butter until lightly browned, about 5 minutes.
Remove cabbage leaves from top of casserole dish and sprinkle cabbage-egg mixture with buttered cracker crumbs.
Bake in the preheated oven until topping is browned, about 10 more minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.