Recipe for Old-Fashioned Cabbage Soup

Ingredients:
1 small onion, chopped(1/3 cup)
1 stalk celery, sliced (1/2 cup)
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
8 cups chicken broth
4 cups shredded cabbage
8-12 ounces fully cooked Polish sausage, thinly sliced
2 tsp snipped fresh parsley
1/2 tsp white pepper

In a 4-qt Dutch oven, cook the chopped onion and sliced celery in the butter till the vegetables are tender, but not browned.

Stir the flour into the vegetables in the Dutch oven till the mixture is smooth. Stir in the chicken broth. Add the shredded cabbage. Cook and stir till the soup mixture is thickened and bubbly. Reduce the heat and simmer the soup mixture, uncovered for about 3 minutes.

Stir the sausage, parsley and white pepper into the simmering soup mixture. Cook, uncovered, for 2 minutes more. Makes 6 main-dish servings.