One-Pot Cabbage Soup

• 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

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

potatoes, baby carrots, pickling onions, green peas, cabbage, black pepper, nutmeg

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/one-pot-cabbage-soup-2534 (may not work)