To Cook Cabbage
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the cabbage and cut it into four pieces.
Bring a kettle of water to a boil and add the salt and baking soda.
Add the cabbage to the boiling water and cook for 25 minutes.
Serve hot.
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
- Forms the main body of the dish, softening as it cooks to a tender texture.
- Baking soda
- Raises the water's pH, which helps cabbage keep a brighter color and soften more evenly.
The step that matters
Add the cabbage to the boiling water and cook for 25 minutes. Cabbage cooked too long releases sulfur compounds that give a strong odor and mushy texture, so timing matters for both flavor and texture.
“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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