Red Cabbage Slaw

Ingredients

• three cabbages
• one cupful of salt
• three quarts of vinegar
• one ounce of whole mace
• one ounce of whole black pepper

Method

1. 1

   Shave the cabbage into a jar or bowl.

2. 2

   Sprinkle salt through it and let stand for twelve hours, then drain and let stand for one hour.

3. 3

   Boil vinegar with mace and pepper for fifteen minutes, strain, and pour hot vinegar over cabbage to cover.

4. 4

   Tie a cloth over the jar and set away for use.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 320. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RED CABBAGE SLAW. Shave the cabbage, putting into jar or bowl. Sprinkle salt through it and on top (about one cupful of salt for three cabbages). Let it stand twelve hours, then drain off and let stand one hour. Boil three quarts of vinegar, adding one ounce of whole mace and one ounce of whole black pepper

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