Sour Cream Pierogi Dough Recipe

How To Make My Babcia's Sour Cream Pierogi Dough

One thing that was a mandatory staple in our house, especially during the holidays, was my Babcia's homemade pierogi. I can't recall my Polish grandmother ever having a recipe card for her dough until later in life.

My mom, like her mother, seemed to recall how to make the dough off the top of her head. It was a pinch of this and a dash of that. This is where the phrase, "I don't need a recipe I'm Polish" originated for me. Luckily sometime in the early 1980's, my mom sat down with her mother and wrote out her recipe.

Sour Creme Pierogi Dough

• 6 Cups of Flour
• 1/4 lb melted butter or margarine
• 1/2 Cup Milk
• 3-4 whole eggs
• 1/2-1 cup sour creme
• 1 tsp salt

Instructions

• Put flour & salt in the bowl
• Add melted butter or  margarine, milk, eggs & sour cream
• Mix together into a dough that's easy to handle
• Knead into a little ball.
• Roll out the dough and fill with filling.
• Pinch closed
• Cook pierogi a few at a time in boiling water.
• When pierogi float to the top take out