148 FRUIT RECIPES 



or Physalis pubescens, and they are known, wild or culti- 

 vated, all over the world, from the tropics of America and 

 Asia northward, sometimes found in Scotland and other 

 damp, cold latitudes. The Winter Cherry is excellent 

 either in natural condition or "put up," and may be 

 cooked by any method of which the general berry group 

 is susceptible — with most satisfactory results to the palate. 

 Also, this little " Winter Cherry " is "good for the health," 

 being as cooling as its name. It acts wholesomely upon 

 the kidneys and has been valued medicinally in other ways, 

 as for gout and fevers. 



HACKBERRY AND HAWS 



The Nettle Tree, the Celtis, of the Nat. Ord. UlmacecB, 

 (related to the elms) should be mentioned in the group of 

 berries as its fruit, known in America as the Hackberry 

 and Sugarberry, is edible and of most pleasing sweetness 

 and aromatic flavour. It is at its best, like the persimmon, 

 after frost. 



The Hawthorn or Cratmgus (of the Malacece) — known 

 in varying forms over the world: as the White Thorn or 

 Enghsh "May," the Blackthorn, the Yellow or Summer 

 Thorn — the Scarlet Haw; with yellow, orange, purple, or 

 red fruit — is more useful than is generally known. The 

 fruit varies in size and flavour, but there are a number of 

 the haws which make a pleasing breakfast or dessert- 

 fruit, being used this way in the south of Europe and the 

 Levant, and also in the manufacture of hawthorn liquor, 

 an intoxicant, and as the basis of cookery concoctions, as 

 tarts, proving their delicious possibilities. (The Viburnum 

 prunifolium, of the Honeysuckle Family, related distantly 

 to the elderberry, is sometimes called the black haw or 

 sloe or stag-bush, though the two latter terms belong more 



