... 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 ...

... Blackberry Reds Every tint that the blackberry knows, from its first unripe appearance when it is a light red. to its last stage of purplish blackness, is being worn, and the blackberry tints are delightful in tweeds and woollens, especially when contrasted ...

... Blackberry Fool Blackberry fool is a favourite sweet, because it gives the flavour of the berries in perfection, without their seeds. To make a blackberry fool for about four people you will require lib. of blackberries, i-pint of custard—(made in the ...

... CHRISTMAS BLACKBERRIES. A correspondent in Buxton indicates ripe blackberries were plucked yesterday at Axe Edge, some 1,600 ft. above sea level. MANY ANIMALS PERISH IN FIRE. A fire which occurred at the farm of Inkerville, Nigg, Ross-shire, destroyed ...

... BLACKBERRIES PLENTIFUL. As a result of the second summer there are more blackberries than for many year* past. WIFE'S OPINION. Acton mogtstrite • What your hu*band?— Wife; A labourer. —Magistrate: Dooa be labour? —Wife: No. MAN'S IDEA HIMSELF. Man, with ...

... BLACKBERRIES ABUNDANT. Blackberrie* were so abundant in the Peak district that yesterday they were sold at 3d. per PRISON A RESTING PLACE. Tottenham Prisoner; The only rest I have had in two years wa* the three montli* I spent Pentonville. WOMAN’S EXPLOSION ...

... was about nine years old. Despite his unequal battle with the thorns he was enjoying his first experience of blackberrying alone. Blackberry time! How quickly the seasons come and go. Scarcely ...

... 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 ...

... 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 Harvest .WHY GOOD LOCAL THIS npHE wild blackberry crop Is showing the effects of the season. Two friends who took their car the Scorton district yesterday on a blackberrying expedition came back very disappointed. Apparently the berries have ...

... 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 ...