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Cabbage

From The Picayune Creole cook book (1922).

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From The Picayune Creole cook book (1922), printed page 192, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/picayunecreolec00unkngoog

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Ingredients

Method

  1. 1 Teaspoonful of Salt.
  2. 1 Red Pepper Pod.
  3. 1 Teaspoonful of Chili Pepper.
  4. For boiling, select a fine head in which the green and white are prettily mingled.
  5. The white makes the daintiest dish.
  6. Remove all the outside leaves and reject them.
  7. Xlien cut the cabbage head into quarters, and let it soak in cold water for about an hour.
  8. Then drain well, and pull off each leaf separately to dislcxlgre all lurking insects, and wash tlie leaves in a pan of fresh water.
  9. Drain thoroughly, put them into a large pot of boiling water with a pound of h&m or salt pork, and cook them for an hour or more until tender.
  10. After they have cooked for ten minutes add a teaspoonful of salt and a re<l pepper pod, cut in two.
  11. Add a teaspoonful of Chili pepper.
  12. Cover tlie cabbage and boil for one hour, if it is very young and tender;
  13. boil for two hours or more if it is tougrii* When done drain well of all water, and place in a dish with the salt meat or ham on top, and serve hot, Tlie Creoles serve boiled cabbage with a homemade pepper vinegar.