Bakeapples and other Berries

Bakeapple


partridge Berry


"Buddy, grab your berry box, we're going up on the barrens after the bakeapples and havin a bit of a boil up. By rights we should have headed up there an hour ago."

"Hold your horses would ya. I'm beat out, I was over to mudder's hauling stuff around, and she only give me a bare-legged cup of tea."

"Come on b'y!"

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Bakeapple -A yellow orange cluster berry similar in appearance to the raspberry. Found in marshes and bogs. Also called the cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, salmonberry, creeping raspberry or yellow gold. (pictured above)

Bare-legged cup of tea - a cup of tea served without food offered.

Barrens - a plateau with low vegetation where berries often grow.

Bayman - someone who lives outside St. John's. (me, but not my husband)

Beat out - to be tired and out of breath.

Berry box - a wooden box used to transport berries from the berry hills.

Boil up - a meal in the woods.

Buddy - referring to a person whose name is unknown or not easily recalled.

B'y {pronounced; BY} - any male person regardless of age.

By rights - strictly speaking.

I got mail!!

Well, technically I got it on Friday, but my daughter's babysitter "hid" it from me. I was arsing around this morning, looking for some text book or another, and I see a cardboard box wedges between the couch and bookcase... hummm that don't belong there. Knowing full well that mother's day is next week, I resist the urge to unearth the box immediately, instead I wander down to the family room and check on husband and kiddo. They're watching TV, the coast is clear.

I hurry up over the stairs and back to the box. Yank it out of its hiding spot, its addressed to me, which means fair game. I'm not having it sit in the corner a whole nother week. Mine, mine! Like a child at Christmas the box gets one, two shakes, then I'm face and eyes into it.

I got a care package! YEAH! I got 3 bottles of bakeapple jam, 1 bottle of partridge berry, a packet of savoury, and a little tub of gravy base.

So here I sit with the jar of jam on one side of me and a spoon in my mouth, trying to figure out how many calories are in bakeapple jam! At this point I don't think it really matters the jar is 1/2 gone, and I'm not sharing.

Just wish I found the box Friday, could of had some toutons with the jam.