Boiled Cabbage

Trim the outside leaves off, cut in quarters, or in round slices. Put in a kettle of boiling water with a teaspoonful of salt, cover and let the cabbage boil lively for half an hour. When the stalks are tender, take it up, press to free it from water, put pepper and butter over it and serve hot; or the pepper and butter may be omitted and vinegar alone served with it.

Another nice way is to press the cabbage free from water, chop fine and season liberally with pepper and butter, serving the same as mashed turnips. Some cooks boil cabbage with a small piece of corn-beef in the water.

Cabbage A La Creme

Boil a cabbage, cut fine, in two cup-fuls of milk. When done add a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour and season with pepper and salt.

Fried Cabbage

Fry ham or bacon. Pour off part of the fat. Remove the meat and put in the cabbage previously cut fine. Pour in a little water. Season with pepper and salt. Cook slowly. Vinegar may be served with it. Butter may be used in place of ham.

Sauer Kraut

Slice good solid heads of cabbage fine. Put down in large jars. Sprinkle salt very lightly between the layers. Pack very closely. Too much salt will stop the fermenting process. 11

Some housewives add a half gallon of vinegar to a barrel, or a quart to a large jar full. Put a porcelain cover over the top with a heavy weight. Remove this every few days and rinse with cold water to remove the scum. Put in a warm place for at least four weeks. After the fermentation is complete remove to a cold place.

Cooking Sauer Kraut

Cook in boiling water one hour. This may then be fried in butter or ham gravy, or the kraut may be boiled with a piece of salt pork.

Cauliflower Boiled

Place a cauliflower head in well salted water. Tie in a piece of coarse white netting to prevent breaking. Boil until tender. Remove the netting and serve in a deep dish, pouring over it a cupful of drawn butter. Epicures consider the addition of the juice of ½ a lemon a great improvement. Cauliflower is whiter and nicer boiled with equal parts of milk and water.

Cauliflower A La Creme

Prepare and boil as above. Drain and pour over it a cupful of milk or cream. Let it boil and season with a tablespoonful of butter, rolled in flour with a little pepper. Cauliflower is also nice browned in butter after boiling.