[Sca-cooks] Coleworts

[AF Murphy]

Cole Flower looks to me like cauliflower, and Coleworte might be kale?
Ruffled edges, the one with "divers colours" might be what we now call
ornamental...

Cole Rape I don't know.

Anne

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
> Ok, so it's been a long, lazy weekend...
>
> I had gotten frustrated with my inability to find "Herbs and Roots, to
> Boil or to Butter" from Tusser's 500 points of good husbandry, online. So
> I transcribed the whole herb section myself and will put it up on my site
> as soon as I can HTML it.
>
> Anyway, I noticed that he mentions Coleworts and Cabbage in the same list
> (also Navews, Rape and turnips, but that's another question). Hm... I
> said, I thought Coleworts were cabbage. Well, not to Tusser, not in 1571.
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