We American-ized our’s slightly after my Baba passed away; she used fermented cabbage, sausage, ground beef/veal/pork, paprika, caraway & marjoram. I don’t eat beef/veal, and I’m definitely not fermenting cabbage 
I still have some of my Baba’s handwritten recipes, but she didn’t speak English, and my Slovak was broken at best. One of the things I couldn’t stand as a kid was Sirecz (egg cheese). We had to eat it every year for Easter, and the texture made me gag every time.