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Cabbage, Boiled

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Cabbage, Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean the cabbage thoroughly to remove any insects.

  2. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add a generous amount of salt.

  3. Add the cabbage to the boiling water.

  4. Boil the large drum-head cabbage for 1 hour or the green savory cabbage for 20 minutes.

  5. Do not overboil to prevent it from becoming watery.

  6. Remove the cabbage from the water and drain in a colander.

  7. Serve with drawn butter or melted butter poured over it.

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.

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