What is the cress?
Warecress, Green in the Mustard Family, is related to cakes and kale, but has a life far from green and pork cooking of southern style. Many people can connect a cress with beautiful sandwiches made for tea, but this is only one area in which it shines.
The testicles is a European permanent herb, Nasturtium officinale, which was naturalized in the US and cultivated as well. It is not related to a flower called nasturtium. In nature, it often occurs near streams and streams. Peduční it is that it grows in shallow water and in cold weather. Cress can be started from seed inside and transferred outside to streaming beds. It should be harvested before the flower and should be stored in the refrigerator, but not too long. It is necessary to wash it thoroughly before use.
known for its pepper taste, watercress is used as green and as a decoration. It is often used to spice sandwich and often appears in salads where it is USULY in combination with some vegetable or vegetables having a milder taste or citrus ovOcem. It can also be wondered and served as green, used to taste dumplings or spicy foams, or serve as ingredients in soups from Chinese soup cress to cold cream to potato soup, lees, soup cress.
Warecres is probably the most popular of Cressses and for many people can be the only recognizable. Others include Pepper Cress or Sai Yeung Choy, Lepidum sativum; Wintercress or Yellow Rocket, Barbarea Vulgaris; and the upper cut or country of Cress, Barbarea Verne. Pepper Cress is grown primarily in northwest Europe, where it is harvested as sprouts. Wintercress is a perennial plant, high in vitamin C, which grows in Eurasia, North Africa and Appalachians. Land Cress, unlike other Cressses, grows on Earth and is grown in southwestern Europe and England.
Historically, the watercress was used to treat scurvies. In Ireland, it is called the "cabbage of St. Patrick", the forestIt is logged that some as a plant is determined by the term Shamrock . Greek General Xenophon forced its soldiers in the 4th century B.C. And the Romans tried it as a prevention of baldness.