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" > wrote:

> I enjoy making cabbage rolls once in a while. I bought a head of
> cabbage last Sunday at a farm market, and the sign implied that it was
> grown locally. The cabbage leaves were really large almost all the way
> to center of the cabbage, which really made rolling the rolls a lot
> easier. This is, I think, the first time I have purchased a cabbage
> like that. Is there a way to tell ahead of time how big the cabbage
> leaves might be in the center or was this just a fluke, or the variety
> of cabbage which they planted?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom

Hard to say.

I generally use Napa and pre-wilt it.

Works for me. :-)

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