[Sca-cooks] Brussels sprouts
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Sun Oct 16 09:27:07 PDT 2005
> If vague memory serves, you can get sprouts from any of the head cabbages
> under certain conditions. B. oleracea v. gemmifera just takes the hassle
> out of producing sprouts, which is probably why the initial mutation
> survived and flourished.
I guess the point is that if this mutation simply skips the large head
phase, I'm not sure that there is a meaningful difference between baby
cabbage sprouts grown this way and brussels sprouts. I seem to remember
from my childhood my mother occasionally cutting off the main cabbage
stalk and harvesting the smaller cabbages along with her brussels
sprouts. I don't remember them tasting any different, but then I was in
the stage of development where I didn't like cabbage-type foods (thank
goodness that went away!)
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