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Several vegetables in the cabbage family, kale, collards, and cauliflower, have names that derive from the Latin wordcaulis, meaning “stem” or “stalk,” the part of the plant from which the edible portions emerge.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
Several vegetables in the cabbage family, kale, collards, and cauliflower, have names that derive from the Latin wordcaulis, meaning “stem” or “stalk,” the part of the plant from which the edible portions emerge.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
MARIA V said ... we have fourcaulis int he garden, which I am finally looking after now that you know who is you know where and will be out of action for a while ... i'm thinking of trying cauliflower florets deep-fried in a spicy batter.
Recipes: Dukkah and Roast Cauliflower with Dukkah Laurie Constantino 2008
My father was in on the very beginning of the UK regulations some 40 years ago (toms andcaulis came first) and, believe me, we needed them.
EU scraps mythical laws on the shape and size of vegetables 2008
Have you ever tried the mashed potato variety, as in smashin up somecaulis a la mashers?
Because of its origin from _caulis, _ the stalk of a herb.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) Various
The generic term Colewort is derived from _caulis_, a stalk, and _wourte_, as applied to all kinds of herbs that "do serve for the potte."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
These should be boiled in two waters, of which the first will be made laxative, and the second, or thicker decoction, astringent, which fact was known to Hippocrates, who said "_juscaulis solvit cujus substantia stringit_."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
Cassis,caulis, fascis, finis, etc. (containing the list of masculine nouns of the third declension ending in-is), but long involved rules of syntax also that are absolutely unintelligible except to the initiated and those who are by nature the children of light.
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893. James Powell Cocke 1947
Page view page image: sea coast in the sandy grounds and is most used by the Killamucks and those inhabiting the coast. each root sends up one stock only which is annual, the root being perenniel. the bulb is attatched to the bottom of thecaulis or stem by a firm small and strong radicle of about one Inch long; this radicle is mearly the prolongation of the caulis and decends perpendicularly;
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904