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From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman)
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Subject: Old names for foods (specifically fruits)
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 23:27:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 23:27:10 1985
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I have a copy of "May Byron's Jams and Jellies," a cookbook devoted to all
kinds of preserved fruit.  It was originally published in 1917, and Dover
re-published it in 1975.  It contains some alternate fruit names that
I haven't seen anywhere else.  My best guess is that they are old usages,
and not just Britishisms.  The following are excerpts from the book:

"Bilberry, whortleberry, 'hurts', or whinberry, etc.

"Note.- This familiar frequenter of heathy places is little known as an article
of commerce.  Where it grows, it is highly valued and never allowed to go to
waste.  In certain parts of Surrey the village schools arrange their holidays
to coincide with the ripening of the 'hurts.'  All through Southern England
the dark blue berries go by this name... So far as I can ascertain, they are
the same as the American huckleberry.

"There are various other kinds of whortleberry: the bog whortleberry, great
bilberry, or blaeberry; the red whortleberry, or cowberry; and the marsh
whortleberry, or cranberry."

Gooseberries:

"They were formerly known as feabes or feaberries."

Has anyone else ever seen or heard these names?
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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