It was not until well into the Middle Ages that headed cabbages spread throughout Europe to supplement the staple ' colewort ' or kale. |
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Kale, or kail, is the Scottish name for the plant, colewort in English, so you will observe the Scots name predominates. |
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It is said that no sort of food causes so much thirst as cabbage, especially that called colewort. |
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It also mentions that lettuce loves goat manure and that combining the seeds of lettuce, radishes, nasturtium and colewort will result in a particularly tasty crop of greens. |
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