Wilted Cabbage Salad

In Alsace this salad, accompanied by potatoes (boiled in their skins or sautéed) would most often represent the body of a family supper. In Lyonnaise country, a certain amount of chopped, hard-boiled egg and potato (boiled in the skin, peeled, then sliced hot) might be tossed with the salad, and it might preface a lovely mess of tripe. In the first instance, it would be washed down with a Zwicker or a Sylvaner and, in the second, with a young and light-bodied, cool Beaujolais.

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