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Hungarian Cabbage

A historical recipe from The Golden Rule Cook Book, by Sharpe, M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) (1912).

A historical recipe

The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six hundred recipes for meatless dishes, by Sharpe, M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) (1912). Project Gutenberg eBook #55555.

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 Golden Rule Cook Book, by Sharpe, M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) (1912). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #55555 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55555). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Hungary. Associated with Hungary by a demonym leading its title: Hungarian (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. Quarter a red cabbage, remove the stalk parts and wash well, and put it in a kettle containing enough boiling water to cover it.
  2. Let boil for three quarters of an hour or until tender, and then drain, gently pressing out all the water.
  3. Put 2 tablespoons of butter in a frying pan, and when melted add 1 onion chopped fine and 1 tablespoon of flour;
  4. stir until smooth and let cook until brown.
  5. Then add 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 1/3 of a cup of vinegar, and salt well.
  6. Add the shredded cabbage to this, and let all simmer together for fifteen or twenty minutes before serving.