Spiced Red Cabbage(Rode Kool) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 small red cabbage
1/4 c. butter or margarine
3 cloves
2 cooking apples
1 Tbsp. sugar
some vinegar (if liked)
salt

Preparation

Remove the outer leaves of the cabbage.
Cut the cabbage in halves. Remove the core.
Wash and shred cabbage very thinly.
Put a little butter or margarine in a saucepan and 1 cup of water. Add the red cabbage, cloves, peeled, cored and sliced apples and simmer the vegetables with a tight fitting lid on the pan for 3/4 hour.
Add the rest of the butter or margarine, sugar and some vinegar and simmer for another 5 minutes.