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"Yuck! You have found an overcooked cabbage-flavoured bean."
— A cabbage-flavoured Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Bean[src]

Cabbage is a leafy green or purple biennial plant that is grown as a vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads.[4]

History[]

Chinese Chomping Cabbage is a type of magical cabbage that presumably originated in China and is used in the brewing of certain potions as an ingredient,[1][2] such as in Skele-Gro.[5]

Gertie Keddle, a witch who lived on the edge of Queerditch Marsh in the 11th century, kept a cabbage patch.[6][7] When a big, leather ball from a broom game being played on the marsh landed in her cabbages, she hexed the man who came to retrieve it.[6]

During the 1989–1990 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor McGonagall taught sixth-years how to turn Cauldron Cakes into cabbages, which she considered a healthy alternative to eating sweets.[3]

The house of Arabella Figg was described as smelling of cabbage throughout in 1991.[8] An apothecary in Diagon Alley was described as smelling of a "mixture of bad eggs and cabbage" that same year.[9]

In 1992, Flesh-Eating Slugs were ruining the cabbages in Hagrid's garden, leading him to seek a Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent in Knockturn Alley.[10] Later that year, when Harry Potter drank his Polyjuice Potion to take on the appearance of Gregory Goyle, it tasted to him like "overcooked cabbage."[11]

There was a Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Bean with the flavour of overcooked cabbage.[12]

Cabbage hearts were used by the German master chef Wulf Kauendessen in his "legendary" dish Sweet und sauerkraut. However, as a result of the high demand for this particular dish during the Calamity in the late 2010s and early 2020s, Kauendessen frequently ran low on cabbage hearts. In order to help him, a Calamity Investigator working for the Statute of Secrecy Task Force spent days in cabbage patches practicing their Herbivicus Charm, resulting in the production of nearly a million cabbage hearts, which they gave to Kauendessen.[13]

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 16 (In The Hog's Head)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 23 (Mischief Masterpiece) - Herbology Lesson "Chinese Chomping Cabbage"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 1 (Year Six Begins) - Transfiguration Lesson "Cauldron Cakes to Cabbages"
  4. "Cabbage" on Wikipedia
  5. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
  6. 6.0 6.1 Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter 3 (The Game from Queerditch Marsh)
  7. J. K. Rowling on Twitter: "Untrue, I'm afraid! Quidditch was invented in Manchester."
  8. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 2 (The Vanishing Glass)
  9. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)
  10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 4 (At Flourish and Blotts)
  11. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 12 (The Polyjuice Potion)
  12. Pottermore
  13. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
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