... now well-nigh stripped of their leaves, they almost wholly excluded the rays of the moon. The tall edges of hawthorn, and blackberry too, on either side, yet retained their covering, and formed an almost impenetrable fence. The scene was sufficiently impressive ...

... unnecessary as it may appear at first sight, it means a great deal. Professed writers for the young are as plentiful as blackberries in a good season ; but writers whose books have one spark of real interest for those whom they glibly warn or admonish ...

... birds very tenderly for pets. And when the autumn came, we scrambled through the woods and thickets for nuts, acorns, and blackberries. And as for the torn dresses and scratched hands, why we took them as things of course. Meanwhile, we saw nothing of the ...

... the dish, and put in the apples, and fill up the intervals with rice, and bake it in the oven till it is a fine colour. BLACKBERRY JAM is the greatest, the most innocent, and certainly the least expensive treat that can be provided for children, and, ...

... May (says the Edinburgh Courant) is only now beginning to be fully comprehended. In the gardens, potatoes, strawberries, blackberries, gooseberries, and red and wuite currants have suffered severely, and will in most cases prove a very light crop. In the ...

... added if necessary. The flavour of the fruit is preserved by this method, which answers well for strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, &c. Boil o a thick syrUp one pound of refined sugar, and a quarter of a pint of water for each pound of fruit. When cold ...

... judgment as to which she will follow in any given case. English cookery books, good, bad, and indifferent, are as plentiful as blackberries in a favourable season ; a knowledge of French receipts is confined, in the case of the majority of housekeepers, to an ...

... either Morello cherries, damsons, or harvestplums, stoned. BLACKBERRY TART OR PODDING.—As the pips of this fruit are very indigestible, it is advisable only to use the pulp of the ripe blackberries. Take a pint of pulp, a glass of brandy, six sharp apples ...

... repeat the operation. TIRESOME (Essex.)—Doubtless, the following method will answer your purpose. For blackberry wine, put some ripe blackberries into a large vessel with a tap in it; pour on as much boiling water as will cover .them, and. as soon as ...

... so painstaking a correspondent in every town in the kingdom. COMMUNIC&TIONS from the following are declinel with thanks : Blackberry; F. F. ; Myrtle, and A.B. C. ...

... large wedges of various pasties, which he calls pies, and which are richly stuffed with peaches, huckleberries, and blackberries, the latter fruit being not only plentiful to the extent contemplated by Falstaff, but biggsr than the largest mulberries ...

... lounging about, the children playing, and the wretched animals browsing on the scanty grass that, grew between the furze and blackberry-bushes of the common. There might be a van more or less—l suppose sometimes they loft our neighbourhood for an adjacent ...