[Sca-cooks] broccoli and cauliflower

[Daniel Myers]

I stand corrected.  What region are these from?  Is it correct to assume
that their target audience was unlikely to have come into contact with
cauliflower (seeing as it's being described for them)?


Quoted from jenne at fiedlerfamily.net - 5/24/02, 11:44 PM -0400:
>> After digging through this, I'm even more convinced that period "broccoli"
>> and "cole-flowers" were so different from what's now found in groceries
>> that it would be misleading to claim that either broccoli or cauliflower is
>> period.
>
>Parkinson, 1629:
>"The Cole flower is a kinde of Coleworte, whose leaves are large, and like
>the Cabbage leaves, but somewhat smaller, and endented about the edges, in
>the middel wehereof, sometimes in the beginning of Autumne, and sometimes
>much sooner, there appeareth a hard head of whitish yellow tufts of
>floers, closely thrust together, but never open, nor spreading much with
>us, when then is fittest to be used, the greeen leaves being cut away
>close to the head; this hath a much pleasanter taste then eyther the
>Coleworte, or Cabbage of any kinde, and is therefore of the more regard
>and respect at good mens tables."
>The accompanying woodcut is quite clearly a small cauliflower.
>
>
>Gerard's _Herbal_ (1597, though poss. 1633, but not marked as a Johnson
>addition):
>"Cole flore, or after some Colieflore, hath many large leaves sleightly
>indented about the edges, of a whiteish greene colour, narrower and
>sharper pointed than Cabbage; in the middlest of which riseth up a great
>white head of hard floures closely thrust together, with a root full of
>stringes, in other parts like to the coleworts."
>(Again, the woodcut is quite recognizeably cauliflower.)
>
>-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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