Red Cabbage (Rotkohl)

Ingredients

• 4 lbs. cabbage
• 4 oz. lard
• 2 oz. sugar
• I pint water
• 2 apples or pears
• 2 teaspoonsful ground carra- way seed
• easpoonsful chopped onion
• Vinegar
• Salt

Method

1. 1

   Cut the cabbage finely, scald with boiling water, drain, and pour on vinegar.

2. 2

   Melt lard and stir into cabbage.

3. 3

   Add sliced apples or pears, chopped onion, caraway seed, and salt.

4. 4

   Pour over water and simmer for 1.5 to 2 hours.

5. 5

   Add sugar and grated raw potato before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from German cookery for the English kitchen (1906) by Ella Oswald, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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