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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Chard

(Beta cicla, B. vulgardis cicla), a biennial vegetable and ornamental plant. The leaves (leaf varieties) or the petioles (petiole varieties) are used in various foods. Ornamental varieties have beautiful curly, wrinkled leaves with variously colored petioles and leaf veins (mostly red or yellow). Chard is cultivated in Western and Southern Europe, the United States, and other regions. In the USSR it is seldom cultivated.

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* 3 quarts (3/4 to 1 lb.) bite-size pieces baby leaf lettuce, New Zealand spinach, Malabar climbing spinach, nasturtium leaves, small tender orach, perpetual spinach, or 'Rhubarb' chard leaves (use 1 kind or a mixture), rinsed and crisped

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. Cover perpetual spinach with cloches to give weather-beaten leaves some protection.

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For instance, perpetual spinach is quite an attractive leaf.

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