To Pickle Red Cabbage

Source: Eliza Acton, 1845

Instructions

  1. Strip off the outer leaves, wipe, and slice a fine sound cabbage or two extremely thin.
  2. Sprinkle plenty of salt over them and let them drain in a sieve, or on a strainer, for twelve hours or more.
  3. Shake or press the moisture from them.
  4. 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.
  5. Note (Acton): some persons merely cover the vegetable with strong unboiled vinegar, but this is not so well.

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