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Belgian Red Cabbage

A historical recipe from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering, by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (1919).

A historical recipe

The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc., by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (1919). Project Gutenberg eBook #12350.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering, by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (1919). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #12350 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12350). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

Belgium. Associated with Belgium by a demonym leading its title: Belgian (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Put two or three sticks of cinnamon, salt and pepper, one-half teaspoon cloves, one onion sliced thin, one bay leaf, two cups of water, three tablespoons of drippings in saucepan, then add five or six greening apples, peeled and cut in quarters.
  2. Lastly, put in one medium-sized red cabbage, cut in halves and then sliced very thin.
  3. Cook three hours and then add two tablespoons each of sugar and vinegar;
  4. cook one minute more.