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 [[|War of Independence|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
