Cabbage with Butter Sauce and Buttered Crumbs

Ingredients

• Select a small cabbage
• a pint of butter sauce
• prepared ½ cup of buttered crumbs
• a teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the cabbage by cutting out the stalks and separating the leaves.

2. 2

   Boil water in a large kettle and drop in cabbage leaves one at a time, cooking for 12 to 15 minutes.

3. 3

   Remove leaves and drain.

4. 4

   Pour hot water down the sink and fill the kettle with cold water.

5. 5

   Cut cabbage leaves slightly and place in a baking dish.

6. 6

   Pour butter sauce over them, sprinkle with crumbs, and brown in the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Food and health (1916) by Helen Kinne, page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a teaspoonful of salt to a pint of celery. Cook gently for half an hour or until the celery is tender. Use the liquid remaining in making a sauce, adding some milk to make the necessary amount of liquid. Three fourths of a cup of sauce is enough for a pint of celery. (See page 64.) Cabbage. The method given makes cabbage a delicious and attractive vegetable, as delicate as cauliflower; and the odor in the kitchen is not noticeable. Select a small cabbage, with the ribs in the leaves not too thick. Prepare the cabbage before washing it by cutting out the stalks from below with a sharp knife. Separate the leaves. Have ready the largest kettle available, nearly full of rapidly boiling water. Drop in one dabbage leaf at a time, pressing each one down with a long-handled spoon or skimmer. Do this so slowly that the water does not stop boiling. Leave the kettle uncovered, and allow the cabbage to cook from 12 to 15 minutes, depending on the thickness of the leaf stalks. Remove the leaves with a long-handled skimmer, putting them into a colander standing on a plate. Immediately pour the hot water down the sink drain, turn on the cold water to flush away the odor, and fill the kettle with cold water. While the cabbage is cooking, you have made a pint of butter sauce, adding a teaspoonful of salt, and have prepared \ cup of buttered crumbs

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