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To Prepare Cabbage for Cooking

This recipe describes soaking cabbage in salted cold water before cooking.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Prepare Cabbage for Cooking

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the cabbage into quarters.

  2. Sprinkle a handful of coarse sea salt over the cabbage.

  3. Cover the cabbage with cold water and let it soak for an hour before cooking.

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

Cabbage
The main vegetable; soaking in salted water softens its leaves and mildly seasons it.

“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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