Cabbage soup with pumpernickel

This wonderful wintry pot of cabbage soup, with brisket and soup bones in the stock (and for the sweet and sour, brown sugar and cider vinegar). Here's where we start:

And then it simmers all afternoon

And when we're good and hungry from all the delicious smell,
we serve it in our big white bowls

with a fresh loaf of pumpernickel, slices spread with butter

Peasant food deluxe -- I'll be a peasant any day, for food like this. And then carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert. Oh my god, my pants are getting too tight.