... BLACKBERRY SUPERSTITION. French peasants will not eat blackberries, writes a correspondent, because they believe the Crown of Thorns to have been woven of brambles, and the bramble is therefore sacred. While touring- Lear Abbeville once, I saw a virgin ...

... BLACKBERRY SHORTCAKE. Measure two breakfastcupfuls of flour with two heaped-up teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and add three ounces of ©aster sugar. Rub a| quarter of a pound of butter into tbe flour, and then drop in th© yolk of an egg well beaten, and ...

... THE BLACKBERRY CAMPAIGN. The Food Production Department, through the County War Agricultural Committees, has invited the good will of farmers towards organised groups of “blackberry pickers. All existing organisations, particularly schools, are being ...

... BLACKBERRY TART. For the pastry mix together 4oz. flour, 4oz. of eorn flour, on© teaspoonful baking powder, a pinch of salt, on© tablespoonful of caster sugar. Pub butter into it until like fine hreadernmba, beat the yolk of an egg well, and add to half ...

... custard. Marrows supply valuable ally blackberries, if the supply of the latter runs short. Slice a pound marrow two of well crushed berries, and boil well with the -same proportion of sugar as with blackberries alone. A variation can be made by dropping ...

... BLACKBERRY FUND FOR CASSOCKS. Ripe blackberries are being picked in various parts of Surrey, and gathering should be general' in about a fortnight's time. At N'ewdigate parishioners have arranged to assist in gathering berrie.s in the district in aid ...

... BLACKBERRY GATHERERS FIND BODY. While some boys were gathering blackberrieA they found in a ditch at Low Hartley, the dead body of a man, which was identified later as that of Larry Mahon, 52, a labourer. SIR E. CARSON BACK. Sir Edward Carson arrived ...

... Ministry food—north-west DIVISION. COLLECTION OF BLACKBERRIES. The Ministry desire the hearty co-operation the securing the gathering of full crop Ba. merries on account of the serious shortage fruit. -■i r the auspices of the War Agricultural Executive ...

... exhibition flight fell from a height of 300 ft., and LAW AS TO BLACKBERRIES. Two lads at Feltham were charged with stealing blackberries from a garden. The magistrates held that as blackberries were not cultivated the charge of theft could not be sustained ...

... two expsiorers, Mefisrs. Radford and Street, in the winter of 1912. BOY FINDS BODY WHEN BLACKBERRYING. Some boys at New Hartley, Northumberland . were out blackberrying yesterday, and, in turning aside some brambles, found the dead body of a man lying in ...

... woman and the child went blackberrying yesterday, and as they did not return a search was made. Two caps seen floating on the water in the moonlight led to the recovery ot the bodies. Death was due to drowning. A basket of blackberries was fotind near the ...

... Army Order * been published announcing the grant of the medal. £5.547 FOR BLACKBERRIES. The North Wale* Divisional Food Office la«t year put in operation a scheme for blackberry gathering. It covered a period of two and half months, from August At the ...