A head of garlic is the whole thing, consisting of many cloves. I cook lamb shanks taking 4 heads of garlic and slicing them across the head to make eight plates of garlic. Seer the shanks, lay them on the garlic and pour over some good wine, cover and braise for about 8 hours on your oven's lowest setting.
Fishwort. A green leafy plant with a slightly fishy smell used in China, Japan, Korea and South East Asia. The roots may also be used and the plant is also used for medicinal purposes.
A heart or core may come from an ox, a lettuce, an apple, an artichoke. Many different places.
100 litres. Equivalent to a quintale, or 100 kilograms, the standard measure of wine volume in Europe.
Hedgehog fungi are cream-coloured mushrooms, excellent to eat, easily found in woods from late summer to late autumn (US: fall). They have a sort of downy white stem leading up to a cap which is centrally depressed and under which are masses of little spines, giving the mushroom its English name. It is quite a good mushroom to collect as it is easily distinguished from other mushrooms, is a relative of the chanterelle, and, like it, has good flavour and good retention of texture on long cooking. (If gathering mushrooms you must be absolutely certain what you have before you eat them as many are very poisonous.)
I have seen several definitions of a heifer. They vary from 1) a female cow aged 8-20 months; 2) a young cow, that has not had a calf (OED); 3) a young female cow of over 12 months old which may or may not have had a calf (Letham Shank Farm); to 4) a young cow aged up to having her second calf (Lackham Farm). My brother says "A heifer is a young female and remains so called until giving birth to her 2nd calf" and that is the correct definition.
