Name: Bacon and Cabbage
Ingredients: 1 cabbage; 1 pound bacon

Bacon and Cabbage

Ingredients

1 cabbage
1 pound bacon

Directions

Prepare

Cut the cabbage in half and soak it in cold water for 1 hour, if possible.

Cook

Cook the cabbage in boiling water starting at 10:00 AM.
At 10:30 AM, add the bacon and continue boiling until noon.

Serve

Serve the cabbage and bacon together.

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: Its leaves soften as they boil, becoming tender and mild in flavor.
Bacon: Its fat renders into the cooking water, adding savory flavor and richness to the cabbage.

“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.