A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between two or more parties in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger. As a result, all participants need to maintain the strategic tension, which remains unresolved until some outside event makes it possible to resolve it.
Steps. 1  1. Prepare the cabbage for canning. 2  2. Rinse the cabbage under cool water in a strainer, then drain the cabbage on cloth or paper towel lined trays for 6 hours. 3  3. Prepare pickling liquid.  4. Clean 7 glass quart (946mL) canning jars and metal lids with soap and hot 1  water. 5. Pack the clean jars with the cabbage.
So I sent my husband off to find a head of cabbage. The instructions for using cabbage leaves are pretty simple: Keep them cold â storing the head of cabbage in the fridge will do it. Remove individual leaves from head of cabbage â try to keep them in one peice as much as possible. Crush veins with rolling pin â I found this step unnecessary as the veins broke when removing the leaves.