Cabbage Farci (Normandy)

Ingredients

• a cabbage
• a smoked sausage or two
• milk
• the yolk of an egg
• salt
• chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Cut out the heart of the cabbage, leaving the outer leaves for a shell.

2. 2

   Fill it with a forcemeat of bread, onion, sausage, milk, egg yolk, parsley, and salt.

3. 3

   Place in boiling water for half an hour, adding a saltspoon of soda five minutes before done.

4. 4

   Serve with a white milk sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from National viands à la mode (1895) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

abbage Farci. (Normandy) Cut out the heart of the cabbage, leaving the outer leaves for a shell ; carefully wash and wipe it, and fill it with the following forcemeat of bread, onion, a smoked sausage or two shred fine, blended together with milk or the yolk of an egg. Add chopped parsley and salt. Put this mixture into the centre of the cabbage, and place it in a wire basket and plunge it into boiling water. Let it boil very fast for half an hour, and five minutes before it boils put a saltspoon of soda into the water ; the cabbage

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