What is "juniper berries"

Usage examples of "juniper berries".

He understood the solemn feast laid out that night: haunches of pork basted in fat and served with a sauce of cream and crushed juniper berries, roast goose garnished with watercress, fish soup, hazelnut porridge, a stew of morels, and mead flavored with cranberries and bog myrtle.

Her hair smelt of woodsmoke and the sharp, clear tang of juniper berries.

Beneath them she found small woven pouches containing flower petals or juniper berries, and beneath these but terwort, betony, and mint leaves, the bundled stalks of tansy and five-leafed silverweed, as well as lavender so fragile that it crumbled at a touch.

Although the morning was warm, the first frost had come to the canyon a few days ago, and juniper berries would now be sweet enough to eat.

Colun had brought ketdes and pots at Arrhyna's request, and he and Marjia joined in the harvesting of the juniper berries and those other herbs required.

Only three days ago, upon his return from the deer-lease woods, he had added to the stockpot a fat crow which had been stuffing itself with juniper berries.

Now Dr Lecter crushed juniper berries of his own and began to sweat shallots in a copper saucepan.

They pressed her breast and flew out to caress the white aspens and to tear at the maple leaves, and gather the lavender juniper berries, and came back again to her heart.

The interest in the Elder evinced about this period is also demonstrated by a tract on 'Elder and Juniper Berries, showing how useful they may be in our Coffee Houses,' which was published with The Natural History of Coffee, in 1682.