Cabbage Scalloped With Cheese

A German Recipe.

Boil the cabbage in two waters, drain and chop fine. Make a white sauce of one tablespoonful of flour stirred into two of bubbling hot butter and thinned with a cupful of hot milk, and seasoned with cayenne and salt with a pinch of nutmeg. Rub a bake-dish with garlic, and butter it; spread a layer of cabbage on the bottom ; squeeze over it a little lemon-juice and less of onion-juice; cover with the white sauce and this with grated cheese. Fill the dish in this order, and put over all fine bread-crumbs dotted with butter and sprinkled lightly with cayenne. Bake, covered, half an hour, and brown. Serve in the bake-dish.

Stockholm Stewed Cabbage,

Shred the cabbage while raw, as for sauerkraut, when you have washed it well and laid it in cold water for half an hour. Cover three inches deep in boiling salted water in which has been dropped a bit of soda; cook ten minutes after the boil begins again; turn off the water and cover with more from the tea-kettle. Cook ten minutes in this and drain well. Return to the saucepan with a cupful of hot milk, a tablespoonful of butter, salt, pepper, and a pinch of nutmeg, and stew until soft and nearly dry. Heap upon a platter and garnish with boiled sausages or balls of fried calf's brains.

This is a genuine Swedish recipe and not unpalatable.

Cabbage Au Maitre Dhotel

Boil in two waters and let the cabbage get perfectly cold before chopping it. Season with paprica and salt, and stir the chopped cabbage into a saucepan containing a cupful of hot stock. Cook until heated through and almost dry, add a table-spoonful of melted butter and the juice of a lemon, and dish.

This is an Alsatian recipe.

Hot Slaw

Shred a small, firm head of cabbage fine, put into a bowl and pour over it a sauce made thus : Heat in a saucepan a cupful of vinegar, and when hot add a tablespoonful each of butter and of sugar, half a teaspoonful of made mustard, a saltspoonful of salt, and the same of black or white pepper. When well mixed with this the shred cabbage must be heated to scalding and poured into a deep dish. Stir into it quickly two tablespoon-fuls of sour cream, cover and set in hot water ten minutes before serving.

Cabbage Sprouts Or Young Greens

Wash, trim, and boil in hot water with a bit of streaked pork two inches square. When tender, drain, season with pepper and salt, and mince quickly, lest they get cold. Stir in a tea spoonful of melted butter and two tablespoon fuls of vinegar, and serve. Slice the pork and lay about the greens.

Seakale

An excellent green that deserves to be better known may be cooked according to the foregoing recipe, or without pork.