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Harper's cook book encyclopædia

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
sage. Over all place the other half of the kraut, and add a little water occasionallyTo Cook Sauerkraut to moisten it. Cover the saucepan closely, and let the con- tents stew gently till the sauerkraut is soft. When cooked enough, take out the meat. Let the kraut stew half an hour longer, then place the meat again in the kettle to get quite hot. Stir the kraut now and then with a wooden spoon, and take care that it does not burn. What is left over of the sauerkraut is good warmed up on the following day or a day or two after ; it may be served with some other meat. It is to be observed that sauerkraut can hardly be cooked too much. It requires at first from two and a half to three hours' stew- ing. Cabbage, Stuffed. — Cut out the root and remove one leaf all around a sound Savoy cabbage. Wash, and in a kettle of salted boiling water cook ten minutes; drain, plunge in cold water ; drain again, and squeeze the water off. Scoop the heart out, making it a bowl-like shape inside to receive the stuffing ; chop fine two large onions, and put them in a small saucepan with one heaping table- spoonful of butter; cook four min- utes, tossing them so they do not brown ; chop fine the heart of the cabbage ; add the onions and I lb. of sausage-meat, or l lb. of fresh pork, half lean, half fat, and chopped fine. Add one table-spoonful of chopped parsley, season with one teaspoonfid of salt, one salt -spoonful of black pepper ; mix everything well ; add two raw eggs and mix well again. Stuff the cabbage tightly clear to the top ; clo.se it with two of its leaves and tie it well. Cut in thin slices Yz lb. of bacon, cover the bottom of a brazier with them, and put the cab- bage in. Pour in half a pint of broth, cook one hour and a half, basting from time to time. Remove the cat> bage from the pan, take off the leaves from the top, sprinkle over half a pint of white bread-crumbs ; strain the gravy, pour it over, and place in the hot oven for thirty minutes, bast- ing twice. Another way : — A stuffed cabbage makes a good dish, but many who like cabbage do not cook any on account of its unpleasant odor while cooking. This is easily prevented by putting into the pot or pan with the cabbage a piece of charcoal wrap- ped up in a rag, and by simmering the cabbage instead of boiling it. Clean and blanch the cabbage in boiling water and salt for about ten minutes ; take off, and drop it into cold water and drain ; remove a few of the centre leaves and fill their place with sausage - meat, to which you may add a few yolks of eggs. Be careful not to break the leaves ; then tie it with twine, giving it its original form as nearly as possi- ble. Put on the bottom of a pan a few pieces of salt pork, the same of veal, if handy, and also of ham, two or three onions sliced, same of car- rots, a bay-leaf, and two or three cloves; place the cabbage on the whole, cover with broth or water (broth is better), add salt and pepper to taste, simmer for an hour and a half ; take the cabbage off carefully and dish it, remove the twine, skim the fat from the sauce, turn it over the cabbage through a strainer, and serve warm. Carrots. — Carrots and turnips cut into dice or balls and boiled separately are mixed together and moistened with a white sauce. Carrots and green pease are boiled separately, then mixed and moistened with a bechamel or white sauce ; flavor to taste. Cabbage with Broth