Creamed Cabbage

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon salt for each quart of water
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1/2 pint milk
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Have a large kettle half full of boiling water; add salt.

2. 2

   When it begins to boil again drop in the cabbage, which has been washed and shaved, and as soon as it comes to a boil, push to the back of the stove, where it will simmer slowly for 30 minutes.

3. 3

   Take out and drain carefully.

4. 4

   Melt butter in the kettle; add flour; stir until smooth and cooked; add milk; stir until it has boiled 2 minutes; add salt; let cabbage simmer in this a minute.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking (1915) by Robertson, Georgia, page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CREAMED CABBAGE. Have a large kettle half full of boiling water ; add 1 teaspoon salt for each quart of water. When it begins to boil again drop in the cabbage, which has been washed and shaved, and as soon as it comes to a boil, push to the back of the stove, where it will simmer slowly for 30 minutes. Take out and drain carefully. Melt 1 table- spoon of butter in the kettle ; add 1 tablespoon flour

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