Cooking Cabbage
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Trim off the decayed outer leaves of the cabbage, keeping the sound green ones.
Cut the head into quarters or tear off the leaves.
Wash the cabbage thoroughly in plenty of cold salted water.
Cook and serve
Boil the cabbage in a large pot of boiling water for 10 to 15 minutes until tender.
Drain the cabbage and serve.
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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What each ingredient does
- Cabbage
- Forms the main body of the dish and becomes tender and mild as it cooks.
“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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