This recipe yields around 6 quarts of soup and is great canned.

• 1 medium-sized cabbage chopped into 1-inch squares, (or enough to fill the bottom of the pot several inches up with chopped cabbage).
• 5-6 stalks of celery (enough to cover the top of the cabbage), chopped thin.
• 1 large white onion, cut into medium chunks.
• 1 (28-ounce) can of crushed tomatoes.
• 8 ounces of tomato juice or V8.
• 1.5 tablespoons salt.
• 1 teaspoon of black pepper or white pepper, if you want a cleaner look.
• 1/2 a teaspoon of crushed red pepper.
• 1 small carrot
• 1 small jalapeno

Directions:

• 1. Put your cabbage in a large steep-sided pot, enough to hold all the ingredients.
• 2. Put the chopped celery into the pot on top of the cabbage. I usually just do a rough chop to the size I want.
• 3. Cut your onion into medium chunks and place this on top of the celery.
• 4. Fill the pot up with water so that it covers the cabbage, celery, and onion a good 5 inches.
• 5. Place the pot on the stove and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat just enough to keep it at a steady simmer and cook until the cabbage, celery, and onion are tender but still firm; around 35 minutes.
• 6. Then add the remaining ingredients (crushed tomatoes, tomato juice, salt, pepper, and crushed red pepper) and cook an additional 5 minutes to allow the ingredients to get to know one another.
• Remove from the heat and serve.

This soup appears in the book The Mammon Engine, by D. Michl Lowe. The character Schalk is fed this soup and comments how he is surprised at how spicy it is, given how clear the broth seems. This is a modified version of River’s Edge Cabbage Soup, which is my personal favorite soup and one that I have been making for years now at home and refining into what you see above. FYI: Schalk is indeed a dog character in the book, but this soup should not be fed to actual dogs, since it contains onions that are toxic to pups. Onions contain a toxic compound known as N-propyl disulfide, which can cause a dog to become anemic if I understand it correctly. Schalk is not a normal dog, even though he may look like one. As anyone who reads the book can attest to.

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