Stewed Red Cabbage

Ingredients

• One red cabbage
• one onion
• one ounce of butter
• three table-spoonfuls of vinegar
• add a little salt
• season with pepper

Method

1. 1

   Take off the outside leaves, wash the cabbage well, cut it in thin slices, and put it in a pan of boiling water.

2. 2

   Add a little salt; when about half boiled, drain the water entirely away.

3. 3

   Then put it into a pan with a quarter of a pint of boiling water, the onion cut in thin slices, and the butter.

4. 4

   Let it stew gently till the cabbage is perfectly soft, and add the vinegar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed Bed Cabbage. One red cabbage, one onion, one ounce of butter, and three table-spoonfuls of vinegar. Take off the outside leaves, wash the cabbage well, cut it in thin slices, and put it in a pan of boiling water ; add a little salt ; when about half boiled, drain the water entirely away, leaving the cabbage as dry as possible ; then put it into a pan mth quarter of a pint of boiling water, the onion cut in thin slices, and the butter ; season with pepper

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