One-Pot Cabbage Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

500 g rindless smoked streaky bacon
12 small potatoes, halved
12 baby carrots, halved
6 turnips, halved (golf-ball sized)
6 pickling onions, quartered
500 g green beans, cut into 3cm pieces
250 g green peas, shelled
1/2 savoy cabbage or 1/2 other green loose-leafed cabbage, sliced
to taste black pepper, freshly ground
to taste nutmeg, freshly grated

Preparation

Put bacon, potato, carrot, turnip and onion in a heavy saucepan.
Cover with cold water, bring to a boil and simmer very gently for 45 minutes.
Raise heat to a bubbling boil and add beans.
After 5 minutes add peas.
After another 5 minutes add cabbage. Reduce heat and simmer a further 10 minutes.
Lift out bacon, cut into small pieces and return to pot. Taste for salt and season with pepper and nutmeg.
Serve with good sourdough bread.