Cabbage Salad

Ingredients

• Two good sized cabbages
• salt
• black pepper
• dry mustard
• celery — salt
• beat two eggs light
• two cups vinegar
• piece butter the size of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Chop the cabbage, taking out the core and coarse parts of the leaves.

2. 2

   Sprinkle with salt, black pepper, dry mustard and celery salt to suit your taste.

3. 3

   Beat two eggs light, add two cups vinegar, piece butter the size of an egg, heat it until it comes to a boiling heat and thicken a little, stirring carefully all the time, and then pour it hot over the cabbage, mixing thoroughly.

4. 4

   When cold it is fit to eat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fish, Flesh and Fowl: A Cook Book of Valuable Recipes, All of which Have ... (1894) by Ladies of State Street Parish, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt, until all are used; pour over them a cup cream and brown in the oven. Dropped. Drop fresh eggs into a saucepan of boil- ing water, with salt in it; have ready slices of buttered toast; then take up with a skimmer and lay on the toast. VEGETABLES. " Earth's increase, foison plenty, Barns and garners never empty. Vines with clustering bunches growing. Plants with goodly burthen bowing." TIME FOR COOKING VEGETABLES. SUMMER. WINTER. Green Peas, 1-2 hour String Beans, 2 hours Squash, 1 hour 1 hour Asparagus, - - - - 1-2 hour Cabbage, - - - 1 hour 3^ hours Turnips, . - _ 1 hour 2 hours Parsnips, - - - 1 hour Carrots, . . _ 1 1-2 hours Beets, 1 hour 3 1-2 hours Shelled Beans, 1 hour Onions, - - - 1 hour Potatoes, - 1-2 hour 1-2 hour Potatoes, Baked, 1 hour Spinage, . . - 1 hour 1 1-2 hours Corn, - . - 1-2 hour Sweet Potatoes, 3-4 hour Sweet Potatoes, Baked, 1 hour SALADS. " To make a perfect salad there sliould be a miser for oil, a spendthrift for vinegar, a wise man for salt, and a mad cap to stir the ingredients up and mix them well together."— [Spanish Proverb. Cabbage. Chop the cabbage, taking out the core and coarse parts of the leaves. Sprinkle with salt, black pepper, dry mustard and celery — salt to suit your taste. Two good sized cabbages, beat two eggs light, add two cups vinegar, piece butter the size of an egg

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