Kassel sticks

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Kasseler Strünkchen (from " Strunk "), also known as Schlupperkohl , is a variety of garden lettuce , group of varieties Römersalat ( Lactuca sativa var. Longifolia , syn var. Romana ), which used to be grown especially in Northern Hesse and has almost disappeared today. The variety is no longer cultivated commercially, but can be found as a connoisseur or niche product from specialized seed suppliers.

description

The plant reaches a height of 50 to 60 cm, the stems a diameter of up to 7 cm.

With Kasseler Strünkchen, both the leaves and the stems are edible. They were cooked in small pieces and prepared as vegetables.

relationship

While most types of lettuce that use the stem or stalk, usually referred to as "asparagus salad", come from East Asia, the Kasseler stalk comes from a family group with a distribution center in the Mediterranean area. The oldest cultivars of the variety date back to 1850.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Huyskens-Keil, Cornelia Lehmann, Gunilla Lissek-Wolf: Reintroduction of old lettuce varieties for regional marketing. Final report of model and demonstration projects in the field of biological diversity. Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Institute for Horticultural Sciences 2009.
  2. ↑ Sylvia von Canstein: Old vegetables, rediscovered - the original Kasseler Strünkchen is becoming more and more popular (PDF; 256 kB) Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt 32/2014, section “Hof & Familie”, pp. IV – V
  3. ↑ Reinhard Lieberei, Christoph Reisdorff: Useful plants. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-13-151638-1 Preview on Google Books
  4. ↑ IW Boukema, Th. Hazekamp, ​​Th. JL van Hintum: The CGN Lettuce Collection. Center for Genetic Resources (CGN), Wageningen, Netherlands 1990.

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