A native of North America, the cranberry was a favorite of the Indians who invented cranberry sauce sweetened with maple sugar or honey. Cranberries were an important ingredient in pemmican, the pounded dried meat and fat food that would keep forever. Cranberries are found wild in the sandy, cool temperature bogs of Massachusetts and New Jersey. These days cranberries are grown commercially in those states as well as in Wisconsin, Oregon and Washington. Massachusetts supplies 40% of the crop sold in the United States. High in Vitamin C, straight juice from the berry is also highly effective in keeping female plumbing healthy.
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1907 postcard shows women sorting cranberries on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. |
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Miniature clay model of a man harvesting berries with a wooden scoop. |
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