Cabbage

Ingredients

• cabbage
• 1 large spoonful salt
• boiling water

Instructions

1. Pick cabbages very clean and wash them thoroughly, then look them over again carefully. Quarter them if they are very large. Put them into a sauce pan with plenty of boiling water. If any scum rises to the surface, take it off. Add a large spoonful of salt to the sauce pan and boil until the stalks feel tender, about twenty to thirty minutes for young cabbage, nearly an hour for full-grown cabbage. Keep the cabbage well covered with water at all times and ensure no smoke arises from the fire.
2. For strong old cabbages, boil them in two waters: when half done, take them out and put them into another sauce pan of boiling water to complete cooking. With careful management, they will look as beautiful when dressed as they did when growing.