betty's german knockwurst and cabbage soup

Ingredients For betty's german knockwurst and cabbage soup

• 1 lg

  onion, diced as fine as you can
• 2 lg

  carrots, peeled and diced fine
• 4 stalk

  celery, diced fine
• 4

  potatoes, peeled and diced medium - small
• 6

  round cut bacon (Irish bacon) not the long streaky bacon
• 6

  Knockwurst sausages, sliced down the middle and cut into half moons (about 1cm/ 1/3 of an inch in diameter)
• 8 c

  beef stock, made with bullion is fine that is hot/boiling
• 1 tsp

  fennel seeds
• 1 tsp

  dried marjorum
• 4 c

  chopped cabbage
• 1/2 tsp

  celery salt (the secret ingredient)
• 1 tsp

  pepper to taste
• 2 tsp

  oil
• 1/4 c

  chopped fresh parsley