Stewed Cabbage

Ingredients

• a large cabbage
• half an ounce of salt
• a small piece of common soda
• a teaspoonful of chopped onion
• season with pepper
• sufficient stock (or milk and water)

Method

1. 1

   Wash and blanch the cabbage, then boil in salted water with soda until tender.

2. 2

   Cool in cold salted water, then drain.

3. 3

   Fry onion, add cabbage quarters, cover with stock, season, and simmer for half an hour.

4. 4

   Remove cabbage, thicken sauce, add parsley, pour over cabbage, and garnish with fried bread.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 89. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed Cabbage. Wash a large cabbage thoroughly, blanch in boiling water, and then place it in a large saucepan containing boiling water, to which about half an ounce of salt and a small piece of com- 128 STANDARD COOKERY. mon soda have been added, and let boil (leaving off the lid of the pan) until the cabbage is tender, but not enough to break. Take it out of the pan and plunge it into a basin of cold salted water and leave it until it is quite cold, and then drain it on a clean cloth. Fry a teaspoonful of chopped onion for five minutes, draw the pan to the side of the stove, and place the cabbage (cut into quarters) in it; pour in sufficient stock (or milk and water will do) to cover it, season with salt and pepper, and let the whole simmer for half an hour. Take out the cabbage and put it into a colander, and stand the latter on a plate in the oven. Thicken the sauce, strain it, and add a dessertspoonful of chopped parsley; put the cab- bage on a hot dish, pour the sauce over it, and garnish it with small triangular pieces of fried bread. Baked Cabbage. Boil a large cabbage until tender and then chop it coarsely. Rub a fireproof baking dish with a little butter and place in it a layer of the cabbage. Over this pour a little white sauce, sprinkle freely with grated cheese, and season with pepper

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