Appalachian Cabbage and Bacon Pudding

It’s said that the vast cabbage fields found along the Appalachian borders of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee were started by the region’s original Scotch Irish settlers, but it took the modern-day culinary pioneer Bill Neal, owner/chef of Crook’s Corner restaurant in Carrboro, North Carolina, to unearth this ancient pudding up in the Blue Ridge Mountains and transform it into a sublime, rather elegant custard that is served in slices. Bill used streak-o’-lean (lean