[Sca-cooks] Question on period berries/fruit

[Daniel Phelps]

Was asked:

  Are blueberries period?
>>What about raspberries and blackberries?  I know strawberries and cherries
>>are, but I'm hoping the others are as well.


Don't know about the rest but both blackberries and bilberry ( a variety of
blueberry; whortleberry) are both mentioned twice in Shakespeare.

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon
compulsion, I.

Falstaff, I Henry IV, 2,4


Pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.

Pistol, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 5,5

Gooseberries, strawberries, mulberries and dewberries ( a variety of
blackberry) are all mentioned.

Daniel Raoul