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"Savor & Flavor: Berries In Fact And Fancy" 1944 MARIL, Lee
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MARIL, Lee
[63] pp.
Coward-McCann Publishers
1944
8 1/4" x 6 1/4"
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In books and pamphlets of long ago the author has sought for bits of folklore, superstitions, medical advice, recipes and legends, to supply a background for the wild berries of our roadsides and pastures. Here is the high bush blackberry which Iroquois Indians used as a ceremonial food; the Juniper berry which made it possible for the burghers of Yonkers in 1653 to keep their Whitsuntide feast, and twelve other berries.