Feeling Fruity Why Not Try the Lesser Know Fruit the Tayberry
So, what is it that you get when you cross a blackberry and a raspberry? Stemming from Scotland, we now have the tayberry. This beautiful deep reddish purple colored berry is very large and long in length.
First cultivated in Invergowrie, Scotland by Scottish Crops Research Institute botanists David Mason and David Jennings, the tayberry is a blackberry-raspberry cross, which bears fruit in mid to late summer and tastes wonderful eaten out of hand or cooked.
It looks and smells like a blackberry; but just one bite reveals the difference. There is a slight tartness to the tayberry, which is both welcome and unexpected.
Tayberries are perfect for a summer picnic basket or a late summer pie. If you are planning a picnic to your local park, tayberry jam and peanut butter sandwiches may be exactly what you have the taste for it makes a wonderful jam. Before heading to your picnic, you may want to prepare a tayberry pie the night before.
Tayberries are great in a bowl of ice cream or yogurt and are equally good in a fruit salad or mixed into jell-o. You can use tayberries just as you would use blackberries or raspberries. Even eaten as they are, they are a treat. Try them in cereal, scattered on top of a cheesecake or freeze them and add them to smoothies! No matter how you use tayberries, you are certain to enjoy them.
Tayberries also make a delicious dessert wine. With a beautiful red color not unlike that of pinot noir, the wine has a sweet and sour taste which is very appealing and pairs well with meats, especially red meats and game. It also goes well with strong cheeses and is quite reasonable, usually costing about $15 a bottle.
Amongst the wonderful tart flavor that this dual fruit brings, there are also health benefits. It is highly rich in vitamin C and bioflavonoids. Then of course there is fiber and folate. The leaves and the root are known to help prevent diarrhea.
Another home remedy using tayberry leaves (originally raspberry or blackberry leaves, but tayberry works equally well) is to chew the leaves as a cure for bleeding gums. The Scots have been using this home remedy for 2,000 years!
Tayberries are a fruit with a large number of uses – food, wine and home remedies. This fruit is a little bit different, making it an exciting addition to your recipes. The tayberry is a real treat and the uses you can find for this delicious little fruit are limited only by the bounds of your imagination.
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