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