SC - Summertime Cerulean Blue Sauce

[MAYER,ING,SUSANNE FEM BIG-AT]

Hello here is Katharina again!

I did check my books and found the following: rubus fruticosus L. agg. for
Brombeere, engl. Blackberry, Fr. Mure sauvage is a berry with almost 70
different sorts growing in the wild in Central Europe alone! The differ
mostly in look: black, redblack, blueblack or are glossy or  white frosted. 
This is what  you should try to find or the gardenvarieties R. discolor
(weihe et Nees) syn. R. procerus (P.J. Muell.)
 or Rubus laciniatus (Willd.)

Heidelbeere is Vaccinium myrtillus Engl. Bilberry the American variety
(Blueberry) is Vaccinium corymbosum which is also the garden variety.

The book I used is Nutzpflanzenkunde / Wolfgang Franke / Thieme Verlag/ 5.th
Edition / ISBN:  3-13-530405-1


Unfortunately this book is only available in German.


At your service 
Katharina


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Decker, Terry D. [SMTP:TerryD at Health.State.OK.US]
> Sent:	26 February 1999 13:35
> To:	'sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG'
> Subject:	RE: SC - Summertime Cerulean Blue Sauce
> 
> 
> > Could you possibly advise on the botanical name of these blackberries?
> > 
> > Mari de Paxford
> > (Meliora's "other portable brain")
> > 
> I did a little searching and came up with a small problem.  What we in the
> U.S. call blackberries are actually black raspberries.  They do exude a
> dark
> blue juice and have a taste of their own, but they were imported into
> Europe
> in recent times.
> 
> Rubus idaeus, which is definitely a red raspberry, is the only European
> member of this group.  The American variant is R. idaeus var. strigosus.
> 
> The primary species known as blackberries are R. occidentalis (AKA
> blackcap
> or thimbleberry) and R. leucodeamis (AKA western black raspberry).
> 
> Right now, I'm wondering if the blackberry of the recipe may not be a
> black
> currant.
> 
> Bear
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