What's your family holiday specialty?

[spinbaby]

My late husband’s family made sauerkraut balls—a northeastern Ohio specialty from a recipe a distant aunt supposedly bought from a chef for an exorbitant amount of money many years ago. They were a kind of paste of ham and sauerkraut breaded and deep fried. My husband made them every year at Christmas. He had written down the recipe, but when we tried to recreate it, it wasn’t right. I’m trying to make it today, going from both the recipe and my memory of what he actually did.