Name: Cavolo ‘Testa di Negro’Stufato (Stewed Red Cabbage)
Ingredients: 1 dessertspoon of wine vinegar; 4 ground allspice; 1 pinch of mace or nutmeg; a strip of orange zest; a large firm red cabbage of port wine colour; 2 large Spanish onions; 3 cooking apples; 1 tablespoon pure pork fat; salt and ground pepper; 1 dessertspoon of goose fat; 1 heaped tablespoon of brown sugar; 1 glass of red wine

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Honey from a Weed

By Patience Gray

Published 1986

About

Ingredients

a large firm red cabbage of port wine colour
1 good shredder
2 large Spanish onions

Side dish

Method

Cut the cabbage in four, cutting out and discarding the thick white stem, and shred it finely. Slice the onions; peel and cut up the apples.

Melt the pork fat slowly in an enamelled iron casserole, put in some onion, then some cabbage and some of the apple. Sprinkle with salt, sugar, and all the other seasonings and repeat the sequence. When the receptacle is full, add the goose fat, wi