Cabbage Equal to Cauliflower

Ingredients

• a pint of boiling water
• half a pint of new milk
• a large teaspoonful of either wheat or rice flour
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Remove the outer leaves from a solid, small-sized head of cabbage, and cut the remainder as fine as for slaw.

2. 2

   Heat a spider or deep skillet, add the cut cabbage, and pour over it a pint of boiling water.

3. 3

   Cover closely and cook rapidly for ten minutes.

4. 4

   Drain off the water, add half a pint of new milk, and when it boils, stir in a large teaspoonful of moistened flour.

5. 5

   Add salt and pepper, and serve as soon as it comes to a boil.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 460. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cabbage Equal to Cauliflower. — Remove the outer leaves from a solid, small - sized head of cabbage, and cut the remainder as fine as for slaw. Have on the fire a spider or deep skillet, and when it is hot put in the cut cabbage, pouring over it right away a pint of boiling water. Cover closely, and allow it to cook rapidly for ten minutes. Drain off the water and add half a pint of new milk, or part milk and cream ; when it boils stir in a large teaspoonful of either wheat or rice flour, moistened with milk ; add salt and pepper

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