colewort
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“Collards is a corruption of colewort — colewort is any non-heading cabbage,” said Dr. Harris, the author of “High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America.”
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2021
All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower, brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints.
From Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses by Daniel, Florence
Picture these people, then, in very simple natural wool-coloured dresses going about their ordinary country life, attending their bees, their pigs, sheep, and cattle, eating their kele soup, made of colewort and other herbs.
From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton
His remedies were principally extracted from herbs; and colewort, or cabbage, was his favourite cure38.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
In these beds, along with the tobacco, they generally sow kale, colewort, and cabbage seed, &c., at the same time.
