This section is from the book "The Rocky Mountain Cook Book. For High Altitude Cooking", by Caroline Trask Norton. Also available from Amazon: Rocky Mountain Cook Book.
Take off the outside leaves, cut in quarters, wash and soak in cold water for one hour, drain and put on to cook in boiling salted water with a fourth tea-spoonful of soda. The soda helps to make it more digestible. When tender drain, cut or chop fine, season with butter, hot milk or cream, salt and pepper, or mix with a white sauce and cover with buttered crumbs, brown in the oven.
Cold cabbage can be used; chop cooked cabbage fine, put in a baking dish layers of cabbage, white sauce and cheese, well seasoned, having the cheese on top; brown in a hot oven.
Cut red cabbage in halves, soak in cold water, then shave in thin slices, put on to cook in the following mixture: For every two cups of cabbage use two tablespoonfuls of butter, the same amount of vinegar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, little pepper, two cups of boiling water; cook slowly till tender. Serve hot or cold.
 
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