Boiled Cabbage

Ingredients

• Strip off the outside leaves, cut in quarters
• stir in a table-spoonful of butter
• pepper
• and salt

Method

1. 1

   Lay cabbage in cold water for an hour.

2. 2

   Cover with boiling water and cook for 15 minutes, then turn off the water and cover with fresh boiling water.

3. 3

   Cook until tender, perhaps an hour, and drain well.

4. 4

   Chop, stir in butter, pepper, and salt, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 95. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILED CABBAGE. Strip off the outside leaves, cut in quarters, and lay for an hour in cold water. Cover with boiling water and cook 1 5 minutes, and then turn off the water and cover with fre^h boiling water. Cook until tender — perhaps an hour — and drain well. Chop, and stir in a table-spoonful of butter, pep- per and salt. Serve hot. Some prefer to boil a piece of pork with the cabbage. It will give a de- licious flavor. GREEN PEAS. Shell and lay in cold water for an hour. Put in- to salt boiling water and cook half an hour. Drain well and season with butter and pepper

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