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What are Cloudberries and can we eat them?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nps.gov/bela/html/cldberry.htm They are indeed edible.

All edible berries are great, esp steeped together, and served warm with very good vanilla ice cream. mmmmn. the arrival of blackberries is bitter sweet though, as it heralds the imminent arrival of autumn.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I want a nagoonberry!!

Oh and what about snozberries? heh heh!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

boysenberries!

aren't we going PYO?

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone know of any pick your own farms out N.E. London way?

I haven't gone PYO for years, after we used to go every summer holiday, for mum to get strawberries, rasberries and blackcurrants to make jam. The best one was always PYO blackberries though, cos that was free, and you could eat as many of them as you liked as you picked without getting into trouble.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bluesberries.com/images/Bluesberriescoverjpg_small.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.parkfruitfarm.co.uk/Farmshopfront.htm

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.eapples.co.uk/eapples4.html

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone else use the term "berries" as a euphemism for ecstasy tablets?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I had cloudberries last week, only in Newfoundland they call them bakeapples, and when they're fresh they taste like baked apples, but when they're cooked they only taste acidic. I was extremely excited to discover this.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

King of the berry = gooseberry. Or Nick Berry.

― gobemouche, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

funny exchange from uh a Gibson novel (forget title)

"What's your name?"
"Berry"
"Barry?"
"No, as in straw. As in dingle."

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"lingonberries" always sounds a little dirty to me.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh and I just remembered why.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I had Gooseberries a while back and found them very interesting--atypical. Anyone have a use for these besides eating them out of hand?

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 8 September 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Pies. I've never made one -- never found gooseberries in quantity enough to make a pie :( -- but I know that's a traditional use for them. More or less as you would for blueberry, I think? Focusing on the fruit, in other words, without the spices of an apple pie etc.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Gooseberry jam is really good.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I really want some gooseberries now. We didn't have much in the way of berry selection out here, I guess it's not a berry place -- unless berry season is earlier here than I think of it as (May - August depending on type, roughly? For New Hampshire anyway. New Orleans is not so much a berry place either.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Gooseberry jam, jelly, pie, syrup ... can also be included in a homemade version of fruit cocktail. Also can be frozen (I think they have to be blanched first, but can't recall) and used, when thawed, in winter fruit salads. Also work well sugared and then steeped in a crisp white wine.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I have spent the odd moments of the day contemplating the noble and humble gooseberry. I thought about Tep's astute observation that accentuating, rather than overpowering the noble gooseberry's mild, earthy flavor would be difficult. I pondered the sugared variations of jam and syrup, wondering if the sugar would mask the humble orb.

I now declare a mission: to seek out all things gooseberry. To search, relentlessly, the universe of gooseberry knowledge. My first experiement will be Ms. Laura's suggestion of sugared w/ white wine. Tell me, do we mean fruity, sweet, or acidic white wine to make this work best?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i had cloudberry jam in sweden. it was delicious. (especially w. deep-fried camembert and parsley).they are yellow. i always imagined from the name that they would be sorta pearly iridescent blue or something. lingonberry jam was nice too

― cameron, Wednesday, 10 September 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Blackberries.. only because they're so common in Seattle, they're officially considered a pest. You'll be walking by a deserted construction site, and there will be nothing, and then out of nowhere an oasis of thorny blackberry bushes that will feed you for months.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

god these cherries are good

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

thank you, summertime. and cherry trees.

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Ripe blueberries and wineberries abound. I picked a pint of wineberries in ten minutes today, and then gorged in a field of blueberries half an hour later. I'm probably covered with ticks, but the berry antioxidants will protect me from vermin-spawned contagion!

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_31/489000/489951/1/preview/320_489951.jpg

wineberries

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't find out where you found the wineberries. also, do you know where we can find beach plums? last year we picked a bunch of rosehips from dog roses thinking they were beach plunms.

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

At one of my jobs there are two beach plum bushes flanking the path to the house. One is laden with green fruit, the other seemingly barren. I don't think any prunus species come in male and female like hollies, so it's a mystery.
There are tons of beach plums right on the Oak Bluffs side of the drawbridge.
I'd like to find some recipes other than jelly.
Nobody makes rose hip jelly any more.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:17 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I didn't answer your question. The wineberries were at a job.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:19 (eighteen years ago)

The blackberries at our house should be ready next week.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

apparently, for the jelly, you need a good mix of green and ripe beach plums. The green ones have natural pectin.

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

I have never made jelly. Nostalgia for rose-hip jelly notwithstanding, jelly's kind of jelly, y'know? Store bought can be just as good as your fictional grandma's. That Trappist brand red currant jelly is damn good, for instance. And the Swedish lingonberry jelly—I forget the brand. And don't forget Dundee marmalade!

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

And Rose's lime marmalade!

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:36 (eighteen years ago)

I am drunkenly obsessing on jelly.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:37 (eighteen years ago)

Better than drunkenly obsessing in jelly.

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

with young kids, jelly is very important.

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

Jelly can prevent the young kids, but that kind isn't very good on toast.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

This reminded me of one of my favourite ile threads ever...
Berries: A Picture Thread

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

So, does anyone know where the Goji berry fad has come out of? They're not very nice at all!

― I know, right?, Saturday, 15 September 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

They're one of them superfoods innit?

Acai berries are horrible too.

― jel --, Sunday, 16 September 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

Just picked 2 gallons of blueberries, somebody come get some of these things.

― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 June 2014 15:32 (eleven years ago)

yummm

new bushes we have this year are razzleberries and black cap raspberries

― polyamanita (sleeve), Saturday, 28 June 2014 15:46 (eleven years ago)

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