It is very convenient to use tasty and useful cabbage for preparations. It can be both salads, and the cabbage which is simply cut by straws which are pickled or fermented. Combined preparations where there are different vegetables and also gas stations for soups are popular.
Cabbage salad for the winter "September"
This cabbage salad as it is clear from the name, prepare mainly in September. For it you need to about one kilogram of cabbage and paprika, 3 kg tomato, on half a kilo of carrots and onions. For marinade on this amount of vegetables: 3 spoons of salt, two thirds of a glass of sugar, a glass of vegetable oil, a third of a glass of vinegar, it is possible to add some greens.
Chop vegetables so that they looked beautifully. It is better to cut carrots straws. Mix everything in one pan, add other ingredients, then leave to stand a couple of hours. Vegetables have to start up juice. Then put on fire and wait for boiling. On small fire you cook everything about 20 minutes. Sterilize the jars. Spread out salad hot on banks and roll up covers.
Soup garnish
Gas stations are extremely convenient for soups – in winter time you will need only to put contents banks in the boiling broth, and on it all fuss with preparation of a dish is ended. There is a universal soup garnish: with addition of beet it becomes filler for borsch, when replacing by any other vegetable it is possible to add it to any soup.
2 kg of cabbage, 3 kg of beet, on 1 kg of carrots, onions and tomato, paprika half a kilo. On this amount of vegetables: 180 g of vinegar, glass of vegetable oil, 3 spoons of salt, incomplete glass of sugar.
Crush vegetables, put in a pan and mix. Connect to salt, oil, sugar, put on fire, cook longer before boiling and keep on small fire of 20 more minutes. Pour in vinegar, you extinguish 10 more minutes. It is hotter to spread out the received gas station on the prepared banks. Roll up banks covers and place a baking plate a blanket before full cooling.