Scalloped Cabbage
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Chop 1 quart of cabbage.
Boil the cabbage for 20 minutes.
Butter a baking pan.
Assemble
Alternate layers of bread crumbs and cabbage.
Season with pepper and salt.
Pour over cream sauce.
Bake
Bake for twenty minutes.
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. See the original page.
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What each ingredient does
- Cabbage (in the method)
- Forms the bulk of the dish and softens during boiling and baking.
- Bread crumbs (in the method)
- Absorb the cream sauce and give the layers body and structure.
- Cream sauce (in the method)
- Adds moisture and richness, helping the layers bake tender and cohesive.
“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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