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Bilberry pie, tarte aux myrtilles. The fruits are eaten fresh or made into jams, fools, juices, or pies. In France and Italy, they are used as a base for liqueurs and are a popular flavouring for sorbets and other desserts. In Brittany, they are often used as a flavouring for crêpes.
The name 'huckleberry' is a North American variation of the English dialectal name variously called 'hurtleberry' or 'whortleberry' (/ ˈ hw ɜːr t əl b ɛr i /) for the bilberry. [1] In North America, the name was applied to numerous plant variations, all bearing small berries with colors that may be red, blue, or black. [2]
Vaccinium myrtillus or European blueberry is a holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, known by the common names bilberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry. [3] It is more precisely called common bilberry or blue whortleberry to distinguish it from other Vaccinium relatives.
Gaylussacia brachycera, commonly known as box huckleberry or box-leaved whortleberry, is a low North American shrub related to the blueberry and the other huckleberries. It is native to the east-central United States ( Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North Carolina , Kentucky , and Tennessee ).
Vaccinium vitis-idaea is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family, Ericaceae.It is known colloquially as the lingonberry, partridgeberry, [a] foxberry, mountain cranberry, or cowberry.
Vaccinium arctostaphylos or Caucasian whortleberry is a species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color. It is native to Western Asia ( Iran and Turkey ), the Caucasus ( Armenia ; Azerbaijan ; Georgia ; Russia ), and Southeastern Europe ( Bulgaria ). [ 1 ]
Local cakes and desserts include saffron cake, heavy cake (similar to Welsh cakes), fairing biscuits, figgy 'obbin, [22] or fuggan, scones (often served with jam and clotted cream) and whortleberry pie. [23] [24] [25] Baking cakes using yeast is more common here than in the rest of England.
Whortleberry may refer to the berries of several plants of genus Vaccinium: Vaccinium myrtillus, European bilberry or blue whortleberry; Vaccinium vitis-idaea, ...