Cabbage
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About
- Common Names
- Cabbage
- Classification
- Culinary Vegetable
- Description
- A firm balled leafy plant cultivated as a vegetable food. It has a slightly bitter taste if eaten raw, which is removed through cooking. Cabbage is a popular food crop, being cold tolerant, and relatively fast growing.
Ecology
- Rarity
- Common
- Distribution
- Sub-arctic through Sub-tropical
- Life Cycle
- Flowering in the fall, cabbages disperse seeds after the first frosts.
Related Species
Uses
- Cultivation
- Cabbages are harvested in the early to late fall.
- Culinary
- Cabbages find use in a wide variety of dishes, including soups and stews, fried, or used as leafy wraps for other mixed foods such as grains and meats.
- Medicinal
- Both mashed cabbage and cabbage juice finds use in anti-inflammatory poultices, and lineaments.
- Other
- Cabbages juice is used as a fixative in some dyes.
History
- Cultural
- Cabbage is a ubiquitous food staple throughout its range. More specifically it features heavily in the history of Lo Ark, where is was an essential food during the siege during the Iskandean War of Independence in 135 YG. Cabbages following the successful capture of the town by insurrectionist forces, the ruling family of Ark Hiem took the cabbage as a sigil representing enduring strength in hard times.
- Religious
