Author: Miller, Family: Rosaceae
Latin Synonyms: pyrus malus, malus communis
The apple is one of the earliest cultivated plants, there have been archeological finds of cultivated varieties from the neolithicum, the beginning of cultivation probably goes back to the mesolithicum. Malus sylvestris is not the only, but the most important 'ancestor' of our cultivated apple (which is called malus domestica).
The fruits of the wild apple tree are only 2-3 cm in diameter and tart.
More about apple in MGMH
Text References: Healing
| MH 20, 309 |
Mamut's Arthritis
"Then, before you sleep tonight, I have new wash for joints. Apple
juice and hot root ..."
"You mean horseradish? The root Nezzie uses, with food."
"I think, yes, with apple juice and Talut's bouza. Will make skin warm,
and inside skin warm, too." |
Text References: Food
| CB 6, 77 |
Feast for New Cave
(...) and a sauce of dried, tart apples mixed with wild rose petals
and a lucky find of honey steamed near another fire. |
| CB 11, 171 |
But he knew that gathering Iza's magic plants was more important than
getting him a drink of water, (...) or an apple (...) |
| CB 16, 259-260 |
Ayla's Cave
In the immediate vicinity were also nuts, high-//bush cranberries,
bearberries, hard small apples, starchy potatolike roots, and edible ferns. |
| CB 22, 361 |
"Now I know why clans say their cave bears talk," Ayla motioned to
Uba. "He's asking for more; do you have another apple?" |
| CB 24, 392 |
Feast at Clan Gathering
Norg's clan toasted chestnuts gathered from the lower slopes and made
a nut-flavored porridge sauce from cracked beechnuts, parched grains, and
slices of small, hard, tart-sweet apples, cooked long and slowly. |
| VH 1, 10-11 |
Traveling Provisions
She checked her food next. (...)
She added some strips of dried // meat (...) a few dried apples, some
hazelnuts, a few pouches of grain plucked from the grasses of the steppes
near the cave, and threw away a rotten root. |
| VH 5, 79 |
Winter Storage
She was making a storage container, thinking about everything she had
to do to make herself secure for the cold season ahead. (...)
There will be a lot of blueberries, but I won't get much out of that
scrawny little apple tree. |
| MH 15, 224 |
"Why don't you give him some of those little apples in that bowl over
there? I looked over some, and those have bruises," she said. |
| MH 15, 225 |
"What are you giving Nezzie?" he asked.
"Food, like those apples, and containers to hold it." |
| MH 18, 274 |
Adoption Gift to Nezzie
The basket, divided into sections by flexible birchbark, was full of
food. There were small hard apples, (...)
Nezzie smiled warmly at her as she examined the selection. It was a
perfect gift. |
| PP 8, 118-119 |
Traveling Provisions
She took out all the various kinds of dried preserved food she had
brought with them and spread it out on top of their sleeping roll. There
were berries (...)
Other sweet varieties were cooked down, then dried to a leathery texture,
sometimes with added pieces of small hard apples, tart but high in pectin.
Whole berries and wild apples, along with other fruits such as wild pears
and plums, were sliced or left whole, and sweetened a bit as they dried
in the sun. Any of them could // be eaten as they were, or soaked or cooked
with water, and were often used to flavor soups or meats. |
| PP 30, 493 |
Feast for S'Armunai
After she put the rest aside, she had taken out a basket of small whole
apples, hardly bigger than cherries, which she had found while trailing
Jondalar. They had frozen but were still clinging to a dwarfed clump of
leafless trees on the south face of a hillside. She had cut the hard little
apples in half, seeded them, then boiled them for a while with dried rose
hips. She left the result overnight near the fire. By morning it had cooled
and thickened from the natural pectin to a sauce of a jellylike consistency
with bits of chewy apple skin.
(...) She also tasted the thickened apple mixture. Freezing had moderated
the usual tart sourness of the hard apples and adding rose hips had imparted
a reddish tinge and a tangy sweet flavor. |
| PP 33, 549 |
Food in Winter
"I have seen and eaten food that Ayla has found, even in winter. You
even ate some of it tonight. (...)"
"But certain edible berries and fruits stay on the bush well into winter
- I even found a tree with a few apples still clinging to it - and the
inner bark of most trees can be eaten." |
| PP 44, 752 |
When she went to pick them, she saw some spring mushrooms and then
crab apple blossoms and elder shoots. She returned to their campsite holding
the front of her tunic out like a basket, full of fresh greens and other
delicacies. |
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Abbreviations |
Editions |
| CB |
The Clan of the Cave Bear |
The page numbers refer to the hardcover editions by Crown Publishers, Inc, New York 1980, 1982, 1985, 1990.
Book 1-3 are the Special Collector's Edition, I don't know if the page numbers differ from those of the 'normal' hardcover editions. |
| VH |
The Valley of Horses |
| MH |
The Mammoth Hunters |
| PP |
The Plains of Passage |
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