1 14 Ihe Tra£iical Kitchen Gardiner. 



SECT. III. CHAP. XXV, 

 Of the borecole, broccoli Sy &c. 



THis laft kind of cabbage I fliall treat 

 of, is the borecole and broccoli, 

 before- mentioned ; the firft of which feed 

 we raife very eafily in Knglandy or pro- 

 cure from Hollands and the other, that 

 has been, till within thefe few years, a 

 Granger in England, we have the feed 

 every year from Venice or Naples j and 

 in confideration of its groffnefs and 

 crifpy quality, is calFd the Italian afpa- 

 ragus. 



The borecole is a hardy coarfe plant, 

 and has been cultivated long with us ; 

 the feed is fown in March, April or 

 May, and is ufed all the year as a gar- 

 niture to difhes where greens of the 

 fame kind are 5 the French and T>titcb 

 cooks boil it fometimes as they do o- 

 ther coleworts, and often eat it raw with 

 oil and vinegar, and make much ado 

 about it as an extraordinary difh 5 but 

 our EngUfio cooks have not that efteem 

 for it as the others have, 

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