Combine all the sauce ingredients. Fill each can up with water and add. While the sauce is cooking, sauté onions dry. When a little water comes out, add butter. Continue to sauté. Add three tablespoons of beef base.

Core cabbage heads. Place in boiling water until tender (about 5 minutes). Remove the heads when soft. Cut out the cabbage membrane, so it is easier to roll.

Cook rice. Rinse rice after it is done. Put onions together with rice, parsley, and sugar. Mix well. Combine veal, pork, and ground beef together with eggs, salt, pepper, and garlic salt. Add to rice mixture. Mix thoroughly.

In a large, ungreased roaster pan, crumble the cabbage cores. Place bacon strips (ham hocks are also okay) on the bottom of the roaster. Put a little sauce on the bottom of the pan. One cabbage will serve as a liner. Arrange cabbage leaves so that they are hanging over the sides of the pan.

Take the other cabbage head. Place a cabbage leaf in one hand, a handful of meat in the other. Adjust the amount of meat to the size of the leaf. If you are right-handed, put the cabbage in your right palm. Place the meat mixture toward the base of the cabbage leaf. Fold over, bringing both sides to the middle. Pick up the cabbage and roll tightly with your left hand. Turn it over a couple of times to make sure it is tight and stays sturdy. Put in the pan. Cover with sauce. Make sure that any excess cabbage leaves are folded over into the middle.

Bake for 2 hours to 2 hours and 15 minutes in a preheated 350° oven. Cabbages are done when they are soft. Poke them a couple of times. Check the top to see if the meat is done. This recipe serves 10.