Cabbage
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the cabbage thoroughly, leaving it head down in salted water to remove insects.
Cut the cabbage into convenient pieces.
Cook and drain
Cook the cabbage pieces in boiling water for 5 minutes.
Remove from boiling water and plunge into cold water.
Drain the cabbage.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cabbage
- Forms the main body of the dish and becomes tender when briefly boiled.
The step that matters
Plunging the cabbage into cold water. Moving the cabbage straight into cold water stops the cooking, which helps keep it from turning soft and overcooked and preserves a fresher colour.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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