A Commonplace Book

Category: berries...

  • making muffins from wild Maine blueberries picked by yourself
  • cranberry ketchup
  • The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine. (proverb)
  • Surprising berries like the banana and tomato and date while raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries are not true berries but aggregate fruits (fruits that consist of a number of smaller fruits)
  • in Old English, the word berry was chiefly applied to the grape
  • the bean of a coffee plant is actually a berry and one of the eggs in the roe of a fish or eggs of a lobster are called berries
  • a berry, such as a cucumber or watermelon, that develops a hard outer rind is called a pepo and one that is segmented and has a leathery rind, as a citrus fruit, is called a hesperidium
  • a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone, formed from either one carpel or from several fused together and containing many seeds
  • Berries are not among the top ten fruit crops in the world.
  • knowing how to wash berries (Joy of Cooking)

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