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Swedish Cabbage

A historical recipe from The Century Cook Book, by Mary Ronald (1895).

A historical recipe

The Century Cook Book, by Mary Ronald (1895). Project Gutenberg eBook #34822.

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 Century Cook Book, by Mary Ronald (1895). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #34822 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34822). 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.

Sweden. Associated with Sweden by a demonym leading its title: Swedish (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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Method

  1. Slice the cabbage into thin shreds as for cold slaw;
  2. cook it in a generous amount of rapidly boiling water for fifteen minutes;
  3. then drain off the water;
  4. cover it with milk;
  5. add salt, pepper, and a bit of mace, and cook until tender, and until the milk has boiled away so that it only moistens the cabbage.
  6. Add a piece of butter, and serve.