The Secret is Out – It's Bakeapple time in Rural Newfoundland…
: They start out as hard, bright red "raspberry look-alikes" before ripening into soft, juicy, amber-colored berries by mid-August. bakeapple
: Lore says the name comes from the French phrase "Baie appeler?" ("What is this berry called?"), which was eventually "bastardized" into bakeapple. The Secret is Out – It's Bakeapple time
The bakeapple ( Rubus chamaemorus ) is a low-growing wild berry that looks like a plump, golden-orange raspberry. you may have spotted a rare
If you’ve ever walked the windswept bogs of Newfoundland and Labrador in late summer, you may have spotted a rare, golden-orange gem tucked away in the moss. Known to the rest of the world as the , here in the North, we call it the bakeapple .