Name: Bacon and Cabbage
Ingredients: 1 head of cabbage; 1 lb. bacon; seasonings to taste

Bacon and Cabbage

Ingredients

1 head of cabbage
1 lb. bacon
seasonings to taste

Directions

Prepare

Cut the cabbage into wedges.
In a large pot, cook the bacon until crispy.
Remove the bacon and set aside, leaving the drippings in the pot.

Cook and serve

Add the cabbage to the pot and cook until tender, stirring occasionally.
Season to taste and serve with the bacon on top.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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: Becomes tender and sweet as it cooks slowly in the bacon drippings.
Bacon: Renders fat into the pot for cooking the cabbage and adds savory, smoky flavor.

“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.