American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Cabbage Boiled

Original Recipe

Great care is requisite in cleaning a cabbage for boiling, as it frequently harbors numerous insects. The large drumhead cabbage requires an hour to boil; the green savory cabbage will boil in twenty minutes. Add considerable salt to the water when boiling. Do not let a cabbage boil too long--by a long boiling it becomes watery. Remove it from the water into a colander to drain and serve with drawn butter, or butter poured over it. Red cabbage is used for slaw, as is also the white winter cabbage. For directions to prepare these varieties, see articles SLAW and SOURCROUT.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cabbage for boiling
  • 1 long boiling it becomes watery
  • 1 colander to drain and serve with drawn butter

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Great care is requisite in cleaning a cabbage for boiling, as it frequently harbors numerous insects.

  2. 2

    The large drumhead cabbage requires an hour to boil; the green savory cabbage will boil in twenty minutes.

  3. 3

    Add considerable salt to the water when boiling.

  4. 4

    Do not let a cabbage boil too long--by a long boiling it becomes watery.

  5. 5

    Remove it from the water into a colander to drain and serve with drawn butter, or butter poured over it.

  6. 6

    Red cabbage is used for slaw, as is also the white winter cabbage.

  7. 7

    For directions to prepare these varieties, see articles SLAW and SOURCROUT.

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