Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage

Name: Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage
Yield: Serves 4–6
Ingredients: 50 g/2 oz butter; 1 small red cabbage (about 675 g/ 1½ lb); 4 tablespoons wine vinegar; 40–50 g/1½–2 oz granulated sugar; 1 good tablespoon redcurrant jelly; salt to taste

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

About

Success with red cabbage means getting the correct balance of sweet and sour flavours. Well cooked it makes a marvellous accompaniment for roast pork or duck.

Ingredients

1 small red cabbage (about 675 g/ 1½ lb)
50 g/

Side dish
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Remove outer damaged leaves and cut the cabbage in quarters. Cut away the hard core and then shred the cabbage finely across the leaves.

Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan and add the sugar. Stir just to blend and then add the wine vinegar. Add the shredded cabbage and toss well to mix the ingredients. Cover with a lid and leave to cook over very gentle heat. The slower the cabbage coo