mayhaw


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Synonyms for mayhaw

hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preserves

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Mash the mayhaw fruit in a stainless pot over heat with some water added, then strain pulp through two thicknesses of cheesecloth.
Mayhaw (Crataegus opaca) is a small tree and member of the rose family.
I have Mississippi childhood memories from 50 years ago of Grandmother and me going down the road to the low land where the rainwater would stand in murky blankets around the feet of the mayhaws. The tiny apple-like fruit would hang in ruby spheres from the small understory trees.
Nearby on Short Seventh Avenue is Mayhaw Place, offering an art gallery, several shops, and a tea room.
Red Onion Cafe Mayhaw Place, 408 Short Seventh Ave.
Artworks Gallery Mayhaw Place, 405 Short Seventh Ave.
Perusing this book will have you playing around with your food in no time, whether it's mahonia or maypops, mayhaws or pawpaws.
Ellagic acid content in small fruits, mayhaws, and other plants.
Many of the group's founders are now deceased, but they left a large legacy, which includes short-season peaches bred for cold climates, improved warm-climate grape varieties, the Warren pear and the promotion of mayhaws (edible hawthorn).
Lester Sullivan, university archivist and head of Special Collections, highlighted a number of remarkable treasures, including one of the surviving copies of Les Cenelles (The Mayhaws), the earliest anthology of poetry by people of African descent in the U.S.
The majority made their home in northern, western and southeastern sections of the state, bringing their southern cuisine, including cornbread, biscuits, chicken and dumplings, greens, blackberries and mayhaws, which taste like sour apples.
Within a recent two-day period, the merits of loquats, mayhaws and figs were deliberated, as was the best way to graft an interstem on plum trees and methods to slow flowering in cold climates.
We'll be picking dewberries and mayhaws soon, courtesy of Mother Earth.