Bubble and Squeak, or Fried Beef and Cabbage

Dr. Kitchiner’s Recipe, 1823

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

‘When ’midst the frying Pan, in accents savage,

The Beef, so surly, quarrels with the cabbage.’

Ingredients

  • Slices of rather underdone cold boiled salted beef
  • butter
  • a cabbage
  • pepper and salt.

Method

  1. Put a bit of butter in the frying-pan.
  2. Make it hot.
  3. Pepper the slices of meat and frizzle them lightly in the hot fat, don’t cook them too long or they’ll be hard.
  4. Have ready a cabbage boiled for 10 to 15 minutes not more.
  5. Squeeze dry and chop small.
  6. Take the beef out of the frying-pan, keep it hot in a p