Smothered Fried Cabbage - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 large green cabbage
4 slices fat back, scored almost to the rind or bacon
salt to taste
2 Tbsp. butter
1/2 tsp. black pepper
1 medium onion, chopped
dash of cayenne pepper or crushed red pepper flakes
1 lb. smoked ham

Preparation

Discard outer leaves of cabbage.
Cut cabbage coarsely; wash and drain.
Fry fat back in a heavy skillet over medium heat until crisp.
Remove fat back.
There should be enough fat in your skillet to fry cabbage; if not, add butter.
Turn heat up; put cabbage in skillet.
Cover; lower heat and steam (5 minutes). Remove lid and season with salt, pepper and other ingredients, including the ham.
Replace lid and cook additional 10 minutes.