bake-apple Canadian.
Also baked-apple.
[bake v. 7.]
The (dried) fruit of the cloudberry. Also attrib.
| 1775 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Labrador 3 Aug. (1792) II. 96, I saw the first baked apples. 1792 Ibid. I. p. ix, Baked Apple. The fruit of a plant so called, from the similarity of taste to that of the pulp of a roasted apple. 1829 T. C. Haliburton Hist. & Stat. Acct. Nova Scotia II. 216 The berry being nearly of the size and appearance of the yellow Antwerp raspberry,..is termed by the residents, ‘bake-apple’. 1839 E. W. Tucker Five Months Labrador 104 Several small shrubs are found in the country which bear fruit, the principal one of which is called the baked apple berry. 1895 Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 18/1 The outlying islands furnish the curlew-berry and bake-apple in profusion. 1938 Geogr. Jrnl. XCII. 155 On the marshes were bakeapple, pitcher plant, Labrador tea, and occasional groups of blueberry. 1950 A. P. Herbert Independent Member 283 Bake-apples (little ground fruit the size of raspberries). |