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Boiled Cabbage

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Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a pinch of soda
  2. Water
  3. White sauce
  4. Vinegar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. A nice way to serve cabbage hot is to chop fine after it has soaked half an hour in cold water, put on in boiling salted water, and cook in an open kettle with a pinch of soda, about forty minutes or until tender.
  2. Then drain and serve immediately with butter, pepper and salt, or with white sauce.
  3. Some people prefer to add simply a little vinegar, so find out the family taste.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Large pot
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Colander
  • Kettle
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Cookery for Little Girls, by Olive Hyde Foster (1910). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #37444 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37444). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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.