[Sca-cooks] um, red cabbage in period?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach jenne at fiedlerfamily.net:
>Do we have any documentation for red cabbage in period? I know German
>cooks swear it is period, but I kinda need a book reference if there is
>one for something I'm writing.

Marx Rumpolt, in his 1581 "Ein New Kochbuch", sez:

>33. Nimb ein rot Haeuptkraut/ schneidts fein klein/ vnd quells
>ein wenig in warmen Wasser/ kuels darnach geschwindt auß/ machs mit
>Essig vnd Oel ab/ vnd wenn es ein weil im Essig ligt/ so wirt es schoen rot.

Roughly translated:

Take a head of red cabbage/ cut it nice and small/ and blanch
it a little in hot water/ then cool quickly/ make it with vinegar and oil/
and if it lies a while in the vinegar/ it becomes nice and red.

HTH,

Adamantius