colliflowers

For the garnish of the brim of the dish, boild colliflowers, carved lemons, beets, and capers.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

Have a skillet of fair water, and when it boils put in the whole tops of the colliflowers, the root being cut away, put some salt to it; and being fine and tender boiled dish it whole in a dish, with carved sippets round about it, and serve it with beaten butter and water, or juyce of orange and lemon.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

There were long tables set on trestles down the tent, and long benches beside 'em, and folks eating and drinking, and a counter cross the head of the room, and great tin dishes simmering a-top of it -- trotters and sausages and tripe, bacon and beef and colliflowers, cabbage and onions, blood-puddings and plum-duff.

The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

Or else with capers, mace, salt, and sweet herbs in a faggot; then have some cabbidge or colliflowers boil'd very tender in fair water and salt, pour away the water, and put them in beaten butter, and when the fowls be boil'd, serve the cabbidge on them.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May