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BLACKBERRY LEGENDS

... By culinary arts, unsavoulry deema. In most parts of England blackberry-picking ends at Michaelmas, for a very quaint reason. Ore Michaelmas Day, so rune the rural bolief, the blackberry passes under the dominion of tho devil. It is extraordinary tu ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1895
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 905 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Chats with housekeepers

... part of the liquid. /arkiee rp Apple Jaon (a homely but most delicious pre- ?? equal quantities of blackberries and apples, and be sure that the blackberries are ripe. Weigh the Apples after they ate pared, cored, and cut into quarters. Set themre in a jar ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1888
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1797 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Chats with Housekeepers

... done. When blackberry jam is made of blackberries only, half a pound of sugar to a pound of frail is quite sufficient, but if apples are put with the blackberries a little more sugar is needed. Seeing that, in many districts, blackberries are to be had ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... this spoon was dirty. Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was smrripe, one said it was ?? to call them blackberries when they were red. Don't you know, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are ?? World of Wit ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1871
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

IF

... lift from tho bull there. ' is delightful to range the woods when they chauge, AtiLd the nuts get ripur and riper, And blackberries sweet invito you to eat, -If you don't get a bite from a viper. It's clarming to float with tho tide, in your boat, When ...

OUR HOME CIRCLE

... for sore throats it is deservedly esteemed, and there are graver maladies wvhich blackberry jelly is said to relieve. Blackberry Wine.-Put anly quantity of blackberries into a jar, cover them with boiling water, and allow them to stand in a cool oven ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1899
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1933 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Chats with Housekeepers

... over them securely. Blackberries are just coming in, and in certain parts of the country they may be had almost for nothing, in othter parts they will be sold at threepence or fourpeoce per quart. Some people despise blackberries. They regard them as ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1883
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2740 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Literary Extracts

... by Sterne, by Walter Scott, by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown, and by many other British writers of recog- nised position. Blackberry, as to which Air Bartlett says that this term is universally used in the United States for the English brambleberry, has ...

THE HARVEST IN TrHE

... seven years of age, on the 7th September at Haltwhlstle. The case for the complainant was that the girl had been pulling blackberries at the side of a burn on the property of defendant's father Defendant saw her and shouted, whereupon the girl crossed to ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1878
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2018 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

The Garden

... undulates into heathery waves, broken by clumps of gorse on rocky mounds, sheltered by prickly hawthorn or trailing sprays of blackberry; where undulating meadows, cleft into many a sheltered hollow, roll gracefully saway as far as the eye can reach; where ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SEPTEMBER IN THE COUNTRY,

... been thoroughly enjoyed on the moors, in the fields, and at the seaside. It is lucky for the farmer that the mushrooms and blackberries begin to come just as the children are returning to school, otherwise his fences might suffer a great deal more than they ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1887
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2035 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FASHIONS FOR THE WEEK

... spots on the black net, but these I do not care for. BLACKBERRY JAM.L It is a little late this year, but another time the sugges- ?? that country ladies might even save money by mao- ing blackberry jam would be worth thinking over. There are always plenty ...