To Pickle Red Cabbage
Source: Eliza Acton, 1845
Instructions
- Strip off the outer leaves, wipe, and slice a fine sound cabbage or two extremely thin.
- Sprinkle plenty of salt over them and let them drain in a sieve, or on a strainer, for twelve hours or more.
- Shake or press the moisture from them.
- Put them into clean stone jars and cover them well with cold vinegar in which an ounce of black pepper to the quart has been boiled.
- Note (Acton): some persons merely cover the vegetable with strong unboiled vinegar, but this is not so well.