Boiled Cabbage

Preparation info
  • 6

    helpings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      15 min

Appears in

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

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Ingredients

  • 1 large, fresh cabbage (about 2 lb.)
  • salt

Method

Cut across the end and remove only the very thick, coarse piece of stalk and shrivelled or discoloured outer leaves. Pull off the green leaves and put to soak, with the heart cut into 4 pieces, in cold water with 1 teasp. of salt per quart of water. Soak for 10 min. only. Wash thoroughly under runnin