Topic: Cabbage taste tests

[realfood]

I had the chance to do a taste test on two varieties of cabbage. The green Primo, against the red Kalibos. Cooked, I thought that the Primo tasted more like cabbage. The advertising suggests that Kalibos is suited to shredding raw onto salads, must try that tomorrow.

[saddad]

Ithink the reds generally have more flavour... but as we eat it raw in salads or cooked with apples and cloves it's not a fair test. The white cabbage from the centre of drumheads tastes good in salads and coleslaw. I like sauerkraut but no one else here does..  :'(

[small]

I do, Saddad, what recipe do you use? I've never quite been able to make it taste authentic....

[Duke Ellington]

I grew kalibos this year and found it best raw in salads! to me it was a little tasteless cooked except when it was cooked as a slow cooked cabbage with apples and spices.

Duke  :)

[saddad]

I do, Saddad, what recipe do you use? I've never quite been able to make it taste authentic....

We had a recipe from "young Tom" whose was a regular in the RAF before WW2 and whose wife came from Hamburg... sadly he's been dead about a decade and I don't know what we've done with it...
it was very good I remember...

[1066]

Small are you after a recipe for cooked red cabbage? If so I could post mine, it came from my mum who picked it up when she lived in Holland. Lots of variations on a basic recipe.... probably a similar one to Saddad's  :)

[small]

I understood that sauerkraut was a white cabbage, I cook red cabbage with apple and onion, lovely but not quite 'right' - guess I'll just keep experimenting...

[saddad]

For red cabbage we use the recipe from Delia's cooker course...  :-X

[realfood]

Tasted Kalibos raw and cooked tonight, and think that it tastes better raw, when it has a surprisingly sweet taste and only a little cabbage aftertaste. Cooked, it does not taste as sweet.