Name: Bacon and Cabbage
Ingredients: Bacon; Cabbage

Bacon and Cabbage

Ingredients

Bacon
Cabbage

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Cook the bacon in a skillet until crispy.
Remove the bacon and set aside, leaving the drippings in the skillet.
Chop the cabbage and add it to the skillet with the bacon drippings.
Sauté the cabbage until tender, about 10-15 minutes.
Crumble the bacon over the cooked cabbage and serve.

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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What each ingredient does

Bacon: Renders fat into the skillet that cooks the cabbage, and its crisp pieces add savory, browned flavor.
Cabbage: Forms the bulk of the dish, softening as it cooks in the bacon fat.

“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.