"Cabbage" & this other basic salad ingredient are both slang for paper money
... Cash 
and tobacco have both been described by the slang "cabbage", while .... leaves, 
the contemporaneous recipe that commences "Take cabbages and quarter them,
... [DOC] [TLE] Rose Moradian  Wine Bistro - Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro [PAR] Jul 7, 2008 ... Cabbage is in the Brassica vegetable family that includes Broccoli and ... 
SauerKraut, both using vinegar and salt to ferment the cabbage.