Name: The Cabbage
Ingredients: 2 small hard cabbages (1.75 to 2 lbs total); 6 quarts water; ¼ ounce coarse sea salt

The Cabbage

Ingredients

2 small hard cabbages (1.75 to 2 lbs total)
6 quarts water
¼ ounce coarse sea salt

Directions

Prepare

Cut cabbages in half and remove the heart and withered leaves.
Wash the cabbages in cold water and drain well.

Cook and cool

Boil 6 quarts of water with ¼ ounce of coarse sea salt.
Add cabbages to boiling water and cook for 15 minutes.
Remove cabbages, drain, and place in cold water, changing the water 2-3 times for 2 minutes.
Set aside.

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.