chokecherries
Small bitter fruits
Chokecherries are the small, astringent fruit of a North American shrub or small tree.
The berries are too bitter to eat raw but are used in jams, jellies, and wines.
The name refers to their mouth-puckering tartness: The chokecherries won't be ready until late summer.
Small woody plant
- drupeSeed-bearing fleshy fruit
- stone fruitFruit with pit inside
- astringentTissue-contracting agent
- tanninsAstringent plant compounds
pits · cyanide · thicket · understory · ripening · clusters · dark red · bitter
Concentrated portable meat provisions
- LakotaWestern Sioux people
- Plains tribesIndigenous groups of grasslands
- traditional foodsCulturally inherited dishes
- First NationsCanada's non-Inuit indigenous peoples
Cheyenne · food preservation · ancestral · ceremony · sustenance · winter stores · Métis · cultural heritage
Fruit spread, no seeds
- jamCooked fruit spread
- syrupThick sugar liquid
- wineFermented grape beverage
- preservesCooked fruit in sugar
cooking · sweetening · pectin · straining · pitting · harvesting · canning · homesteading
Gathering uncultivated natural materials
- identificationEstablishing who someone is
- late summerSeason before fall
- AugustEighth calendar month
- SeptemberYear's ninth month
bushcraft · gathering · backcountry · survival food · edible plants · field guide · ripeness · abundance
shrub
Small woody plant
- drupeSeed-bearing fleshy fruit
- stone fruitFruit with pit inside
- astringentTissue-contracting agent
tannins · pits · cyanide · thicket · understory · ripening · clusters · dark red · bitter · birds
pemmican
Concentrated portable meat provisions
- LakotaWestern Sioux people
- Plains tribesIndigenous groups of grasslands
- traditional foodsCulturally inherited dishes
First Nations · Cheyenne · food preservation · ancestral · ceremony · sustenance · winter stores · Métis · cultural heritage · sacred
jelly
Fruit spread, no seeds
preserves · cooking · sweetening · pectin · straining · pitting · harvesting · canning · homesteading · foraging
wildcrafting
Gathering uncultivated natural materials
- identificationEstablishing who someone is
- late summerSeason before fall
- AugustEighth calendar month
September · bushcraft · gathering · backcountry · survival food · edible plants · field guide · ripeness · abundance · free food
chokecherriessweet cherries
Edible stone fruit variety
Bing cherries · maraschino cherries · honey · table grapes · sugar
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