[Sca-cooks] bay berries

[Marian Walke]

Stefan li Rous wrote:


> Bay berries? Plenty of bay leaf sources around, but I don't know where 
> you would get bay berries, unless you had someone with a laurel/bay 
> tree. Anyone know? Are these bay berries used fresh? Or dried?

Actually, bayberries are a native American plant, with a waxy 
covering to the berry from which bayberry candles are made.  It 
is not related to the laurel.  See:

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/herbhunters/bayberry.html

--Old Marian