Herb. No. 193 · Brassicaceae
Wild cabbage of Atlantic Europe; headed forms are medieval garden work.
Native · Europe
Native Also grownNow a garden plant worldwide
LegalGentleplant
Cabbage
Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Fruit & vegetableHarvestCompanions
The headed brassica of winter tables — a fermented folklore as much as a boiled one.
Cabbage is one face of Brassica oleracea, a wild Atlantic cliff plant that gardeners talked into a head. Traditional European and East Asian use is as food, often fermented (sauerkraut, kimchi). Culinary amounts are the path. Raw in huge salads bothers some thyroids in iodine-poor folklore; cooked and fermented are the long kitchen record.
Flavor
Sweet when cooked slow or after frost; sulfur if boiled to death. Fermented is another plant entirely.
Parts used
Head · Outer leaf
Helpful
- Stores cold for months
- A real winter crop
Cautions
- Cabbageworm
- Boiled too long is a house smell
- Raw mountains are not a thyroid protocol