Cabbage

Ingredients

• the cabbage
• a little salt
• a very small piece of soda
• a good thick slice of butter
• some pepper
• some salt
• fried slices of bacon

Method

1. 1

   Remove outer leaves and stalk, cut cabbage into quarters, wash, and boil in salted water with soda until tender.

2. 2

   Drain, chop, mix with butter, pepper, and salt, press into a mold, and bake.

3. 3

   Garnish with fried bacon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from English and French cookery (1890) by Percy Lindley, page 62. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cabbage. — Remove any decayed outer leaves and the stalk, and cut the cabbage into quarters. Wash well in cold salt and water, and plunge into fast-boiling water, adding a little salt and a very small piece of soda. Keep the saucepan uncovered, and stir them down once or twice in the water. Boil until tender. A tasty little dish may be made as follows : Boil cabbage till quite tender, the usual way, and squeeze in a colander until quite dry. Then chop very small, adding a good thick slice of butter, some pepper and salt. Press the whole very closely into an earthenware mould or basin, and bake either in an American oven, or in one beside the fire. When done turn it out on to a flat dish, and garnish with some fried slices of bacon

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