Ingredient: Blueberries
Category: Fruit- Soft
Season: June to August:
The blueberry grows wild in North America and Canada, but these are dark indigo-blue outside and inside the flesh is green.
The cultivated blueberries we buy here are larger, plump and juicy and very handsome to look at, and they are best and cheapest in the summer
The fruit is a false berry 5-16 mm diameter with a flared "crown" at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally indigo on ripening. They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity.
Blueberry bushes typically bear fruit from May through October; "blueberry season" peaks in July, which is National Blueberry Month in the United States and Canada
Although blueberries are native to North America, they are now grown also in Australia, New Zealand and South American countries, and are air-shipped as fresh produce to markets around the world. The soft fruit is popular for use in pies, desserts, jams, seedless jellies and sometimes wine
The blueberry is, apparently, a cousin of the UK bilberry (little berries that grew wild in the UK , with purple flesh that yielded dark, deep-red juice).
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