[Sca-cooks] Coleworts

[Daniel Myers]

I've read a number of sources that say "coleworts" is the original form
of the word "collards", and was used to mean any of a number of
brassicas like collards, kale, and loose-headed cabbages.


On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 12:45 AM, AF Murphy wrote:

> 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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