To dress Herring and Cabbage

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747

Source: The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (5)

For the cabbage

your cabbage ↝ Cabbage, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
a good piece of butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

For the herring

some red herrings ↝ Fish, herring, Atlantic, raw [Finfish and Shellfish Products]
your herring ↝ Fish, herring, Atlantic, raw [Finfish and Shellfish Products]
hot butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

Instructions (6)

Boil your cabbage tender, then put it into a sauce-pan, and chop it with a spoon.
Put in a good piece of butter, let it stew, stirring lest it should burn.
Take some red herrings and split them open, and toast them before the fire till they are hot through.
Lay the cabbage in the dish and lay the herrings on it, and send it to table hot.
Or pick your herring from the bones and throw all over your cabbage.
Have ready hot butter, and just hold it over the herring to make it hot, and send it away quick.

Original Text

To dress Herring and Cabbage.
BOIL your cabbage tender, then put it into a sauce-pan, and
chop it with a spoon; put in a good piece of butter, let it stew,
stirring lest it should burn. Take some red herrings and split
them open, and toast them before the fire till they are hot through.
Lay the cabbage in the dish and lay the herrings on it, and send
it to table hot.
Or pick your herring from the bones and throw all over your
cabbage. Have ready hot butter, and just hold it over the her-
ring to make it hot, and send it away quick.

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