Red cabbage with beetroot

Name: Red cabbage with beetroot
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 85g golden caster sugar; 1 ¼kg red cabbage , quartered, cored and thinly sliced; 2 large onions , halved and thinly sliced; 2 eating apples , such as Cox's, peeled quartered, cored and very thickly sliced; 4 raw beetroot , peeled and cut into wedges; 2 cinnamon sticks , snapped in half; 3 star anise; 300ml red wine; 1 vegetable stock cube, crumbled; 25g butter