Pickled Red Cabbage
They say we eat with our eyes and in the winter months we need all the colour we can get, especially if you mix a couple of tablespoons of the pickled cabbage into mixed salad leaves. However this is not a long term preserve. Its quite easy to do, I did three cabbages the other week and it filled 20 odd jars. This is a very simple pickle to make and is an ideal one to make as part of a Christmas present hamper. Ingredients: 1 medium red cabbage 1/2 oz salt For the spiced vinegar For each quarter pint of white malt vinegar take: 1/2 oz peppercorns 1/4 oz Allspice 1/2 oz mustard seed 1 teaspoon blade mace 1 stick of cinnamon Tie the spices into a small muslin bag and put into a pan with the vinegar. Cover the pan and bring slowly to the boil. When at boiling point put to one side for about 2 hours or so, so that the spices can permeate the vinegar. If the vinegar is not for immediate use store in sterlized bottles. Quarter the cabbage taking away the thick white stem as much as you ca...