The summer and fall have been very dry this year. In fact, the weather is still very summery. Forraging for mushrooms and berries in the woods is not very good now, but our neighbor has been in Finland for a couple of weeks picking lingonberries and brought us home a bucket.
They just need a bit of cleaning.
Then packaged and put into the freezer or made into presserves.
Lingon or Vaccinium vitis-idaea are very much like cranberries – they taste very much the same but are smaller, juicier and much easier to pick in large quantities. We use lots and lots throughout the year.
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They DO look very much like a mini version of cranberries!
The size and texture are slightly different, but the flavor is almost exactly the same.