Author: Linné, Family: rosaceae
The wild strawberry is not quite the same as our bigger garden strawberry. Its fruits are tiny, but
have a deliciously rich aroma. Though the plant grows abundantly everywhere, it is difficult to find
any fruits, because everyone likes them and everyone picks them.
Photo by Jo-Ann Ordano, California Academy of Sciences
More about wild strawberry in MGMH
Text References: Food
| CB 6, 77 |
Feast for New Cave
Hares and giant hamsters, skinned and skewered, were roasting over
hot coals, and mounts of tiny, fresh wild strawberries glistened bright
red in the sun. |
| CB 27, 436 |
It's stopped raining, and I think the strawberries are ripe. There's a big patch of them partway up the path. |
| VH 10, 162 |
Once when she noticed wild strawberries were beginning to ripen, she
searched over a large area to find as many as she could. Ripe ones were
few so early in the season, and far between. |
| VH 20, 342 |
She put down the platter across his lap, then went out and returned
with a bowl of cooked grain, fresh peeled thistle stalks and cow parsley,
and the first wild strawberries. |
| MH 30, 495 |
(...) and the two young women were sitting in the sunny meadow picking
wild strawberries. (...)
"I wish there was enough to bring some back," Ayla said, putting another
tiny, but exceptionally sweet and flavorful berry in her mouth. |
| MH 30, 496 |
"I think you saw some strawberries, too," Nezzie commented dryly, seeing
her daughter's red-stained hands. |
| PP 2, 26-27 |
Dominated by grasses more than five feet tall but ranging up to twelve feet in height - big bulbous bluestem, feather grasses, and tufted fescues - the colorful forb meadows added a variety of flowering and broad-leaved herbs: aster and coltsfoot; yellow, many-petaled elecampane and the big white horns of datura; groundnuts and wild carrots, turnips and cabbages; horseradish, mustard, and small onions; irises. Lilies, and buttercups; currants and strawberries; red raspberries and black. |
| 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 - blackberries, raspberries, bilberries, elderberries, blueberries,
strawberries, alone or mixed together - that had been mashed and dried
into cakes. 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. |
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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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Author: Linné, Family: rosaceae