Ernas' Red Cabbage with Apple
(Source: Stephanie Alexander's "The Cooks Companion", Penguin books Australia,
1996)
(Supplied by Shay Telfer (shay@arts.uwa.edu.au))
(Serves: 6 people)
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 red cabbage, sliced, washed and drained
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- pinch of salt
- 2 Granny Smith apples, pealed and sliced
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar
- 60g butter
Directions
- Place water, cabbage, sugar and salt in a heavy-based saucepan.
- Add apple, cover tightly and cook very gently (using a simmer mat) for
about 1 hour.
- Lift lid and stir apple into softened cabbage.
- Tip in vinegar and butter.
- Cook, covered, a further 15 minutes.
- Stir once more.
- The cabbage should look shiny from the melted butter.
- There should still be some evidence of apple slices, not just a mush.
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