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
Kail, colewort; broth is commonly termed kail; but, properly speaking, it is not kail until the second day.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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 Dion Clayton Calthrop
The same facts are observed in vegetables; the celery sprung from the nauseous and bitter apium graveolens, and the colewort, is metamorphosed into the cabbage and the cauliflower.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
I heard tell likewise of a fresh colewort, from Cyprus in the East—they call it broccoli or kale-flower.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
