[Sca-cooks] um, red cabbage in period?

[johnna holloway]

I'd check the Dutch artworks of the 16th-17th centuries
for pictoral evidence. Weaver indicates that some
of the heirloom red cabbages that we grow now were grown
at least as far back as the early 18th-late 17th centuries.
Unfortunately, cabbages cross pollinate, so varieties
have sprung up rather freely through the centuries.

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

"Decker, Terry D." wrote:>
> Rumpolt's Ein Neu Kochbuch has a red cabbage salad (No. 33 in the section on
> salads) in it.  It may have some other recipes, but I haven't done much with
> it.  There are also some 16th Century paintings which show red cabbage> (IIRC).>
> You might check Thomas Gloning's web page for references.>
> Bear
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> > Do we have any documentation for red cabbage in period? I know German
> > cooks swear it is period, but I kinda need a book reference  > > if there is
> > one for something I'm writing.> >
> > -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa