Foods of England - Cabbage and Pork

Cabbage and Pork

Pot Meals

Any pork meat boiled with shredded cabbage (Soyer 1845, etc)

Original Receipt in ‘A Shilling Cookery for The People‘ by Alexis Soyer (Soyer 1845);

201. Cabbage and Pork.-Cut two good Savoy cabbages in thin slices, wash them, put half in pan, then a piece of pork about two pounds, or either ham, bacon, or salt beef; season [as foregoing receipt], add the remainder of the cabbage; add, if you have it, four cloves, or pepper corns, foe. onions, and a bunch of sweet herbs: do not fill it with water to the brim, or it will boil over. Red cabbage may be used the same way, only adding half a pint of vinegar, and if beef, two ounces of dripping.

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