... RECIPES-TRIED AND APPROVED. Blackberry Jelly.—Put the blackberries in the oven, and allow them to bake some hours, till the juice is extracted ; strain through coarse muslin ; add half a pound loaf sugar to every pound of fruit, and also the juice of ...

... would seem to date back to a hoar antiquity, for amongst the relics of the lake-dwellings we find the strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, elderberry, bilberry, and wbortleberry ; and although all these grow wild in the woods, yet, when they are found stored ...

... only a little of it is grated on bread-and-butter. Balm, besides possessing healing qualities, was mixed with hyssop and blackberry leaves to make a tea, said to be as good as any got from China. The leaves of coltsfoot, combined with the leaves of eyewright ...

... stock consisting of equal moieties of 1,160,00C1. of preferred and deferred. You might as well talk of a mushroom or a blackberry mine in England as of an opal one in Queensland. So writes a mineral expert of twenty-five years' experience in the Colony ...

... pastoral purposes. The sweetbriar, also a garden favourite in some countries, has thriven almost beyond control; and the common blackberry has become a nuisance in some places, and most difficult to eradicate. Numbers and numbers of species of beautiful trees ...

... clear amber shines through the dainty larch and chestnut leaves. Then there are the dull chocolate and mottled red of the blackberry vines, while the poplar and the aspen shine cut with a silvery white, all speckled over with touches of green. Gather these ...

... The blackberry, which is the fruit of the bramble, comes into the market at a season when fruit is scarce, otherwise it would hardly hold a high place in public favour ; but, mixed with apple, it makes excellent puddings and pies, and blackberry jam and ...

... not, however, there is a redeeming feature, for no outlay at all is necessary for a given part of the year, as when the blackberries and hedge. nuts are ripe one can get all one's nourishment direct from nature free in many of our country lanes and woodlands ...

... He has adopted steam machinery, and his press can crush one ton of fruit at a time. Though formerly using plums and wild blackberries, in addition to grapes, Mr. Le Quesne is now employing the fruit of the %me alone. i ...

... Eastern States and from California, including green and preserved oranges, dried apples, peaches, prunes, plums, peas, blackberries, raisins. Ripe oranges from Florida and California are also on view. Nor has the wine irklustry been forgotten by the ...

... It cannot be disastrous to know, in the absence of medical advice, that Hazeline will relieve the pain of a burn; that blackberry brandy is useful in diarrlnea ; that an essential oil will relieve toothache ; that , Cascara Tabloids remove constipation ...

... only are apples and pears suitable, but also gooseberries, currants—the white and red equally with the black—raspberries, blackberries, bilberries, &c. They can be prepared in the simplest way, both as still and sparkling wines, and they will form an ornament ...