Cabbage Pudding
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 head cabbage
- rich forcemeat
- butter
Instructions
- Get a fine head of cabbage, not too large.
- Pour boiling water on, and cover it till you can turn the leaves back, which you must do carefully.
- Take some of those in the middle of the head off, chop them fine, and mix them with rich forcemeat.
- Put this in, and replace the leaves to confine the stuffing.
- Tie it in a cloth, and boil it.
- Serve it up whole, with a little melted butter in the dish.