The parsnip-like or radish-like roots also gave us the name of the child, Rapunzel. Rapunzel, the girl, was known for her long hair, while the vegetable Rapunzel (Campanula rapunculus) is known as a hardy vegetable plant that is entirely edible, leaves and roots.
Campanula rapunculus, common name rampion bellflower, rampion, rover bellflower, or rapunzel, is a species of bellflower (Campanula) in the family Campanulaceae.
Rapunzel, or Rampion in English, is an ancient root crop that was commonly cultivated in the ancient vegetable gardens of Europe, since at least the 4th century BCE.
Field salad (Valerianella locusta), known as feldsalat in German, is used like lettuce in salad. It is also famously known as Rapunzel Lettuce, after the vitamin-rich food that cost a peasant family their only daughter in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
The leaves are soft, sweet and good to eat. The root is white, crunchy and tastes like a very mild radish. In all, the plant has a wild taste, similar I would say to the taste of arugala.
Rapunzel - UK English accent (TheFableCottage.com)
Is there a fruit called Rapunzel?
A beautiful tomato specimen with extremely prolific fruit in a flowing, long cascade of color. Aptly named 'Rapunzel', this hybrid produces sweet, bright red, one ounce cherry tomatoes that are perfect in salads, veggie trays or even eating straight from the vine!
Some translations of the Grimms' story have rapunzel as rampion, which is a European bellflower that's commonly used in salad, but the German word rapunzel refers to lamb's lettuce.
* Rapunzel's Golden Braided Bread – I used a loaf of store-bought Challah bread, but you could thaw out some frozen bread dough, divide it into thirds, braid it, and bake it for a more authentic look. * Mother Gothel's Hazelnut & Parsnip Soup. This is Rapunzel's “favorite soup” according to the movie.
What was the vegetable stolen by Rapunzel's father which she was named after?
The husband and wife could not afford vegetables, but the garden they tended was bursting with them! The woman saw a delicious green herb called Rapunzel: today we call it sweet rampion, or corn salad, or mâche. The man knew stealing was wrong, but his wife was so hungry!
According to the Brothers Grimm, Princess Rapunzel is named after the cultivated vegetable of the same name, growing in a witch's garden. The wording of the story suggested to me that the Grimms' contemporaries would be familiar with the plant as a vegetable, that it wasn't a fantastical invented thing.
The Rapunzel syndrome is an unusual form of trichobezoar found in patients with a history of psychiatric disorders, trichotillomania (habit of hair pulling) and trichophagia (morbid habit of chewing the hair), consequently developing gastric bezoars. The principal symptoms are vomiting and epigastric pain.
Who is Rapunzel? Rapunzel's real story is said to have been loosely based on a true story about a woman, Saint Barbara, in Italy around the 3rd century. The story of Barbara was that she was so beautiful that her father felt he had to lock her in a tower to protect her.
Yes Rapunzel and Eugene make a cameo in Frozen. They can be seen in walking through the coronation crowd for a split second. And of course there's the popular fan theory that they are cousins and that's why Rapunzel is there.
Rapunzel's parents were desperate for a baby. When Rapunzel's mother finally became pregnant, she stared out their small back window into the witch's garden and developed an insatiable craving for the green, earthy leaves and roots of rampion.
In the original fairy tale, Rapunzel's mother did not ingest a golden flower, but a rampion plant (Campanula rapunculus), a species of bellflower and a root vegetable similar to parsnip. The rampion had no mystical properties nor ties to Rapunzel's birth, but Rapunzel was named after it.
The name Rapunzel is a girl's name meaning "rampion; lamb's lettuce". Rapunzel is famous as the long-haired heroine of the fairy tale, locked in a tower only to fall in love with a handsome prince who climbed to her side via her hair.
Also known as pointed, hispi, or Chinese cabbage, the name sweetheart is used because of its sweet flavour, and because the French word for cabbage, chou, is used as a pet name for a sweetheart, not, as you might think, because it has a shape like a heart.
Choose a sheltered position in full sun on fertile, reliably moist, well drained soil, and transplant at a distance of 60cm (24") apart. Drive a (5') cane into the soil adjacent to each plant to support them as they grow, and tie each main stem to its support with soft garden twine.
The story by the Brothers Grimm begins with a mother's craving for rampion, a leafy green vegetable. This craving leads to her giving up her baby to Dame Gothel. Dame Gothel names the child Rapunzel, but as the child ages, Gothel realizes how beautiful Rapunzel is and hides her in a tall tower to protect her.
