[Sca-cooks] Coleworts

[Terry Decker]

All of the domestic cabbages are variants of Brassica oleracea.  They are
basically different morphings of sea kale.

Cabbage usually refers to the head cabbage while colewort refers to kale, a
loose-leaf cabbage.  Cole flower is cauliflower.  And the cole rape is
probably kohlrabi, which is also referred to as turnip cabbage.

As I recall, the cabbages of the Ancient World are to be found in Pliny.

Bear


>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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>-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net