![]() The four-celled berries are acidic to sour or bitter. Fruit is a bright to dark red, globular berry approximately 0.2 to 0.4 inch (6-10 mm) in diameter. Flowering normally takes place from May and June. Each flower measures up to eight millimeters in length and has four to five petals, which are fused to form a tube at the base. The green leaves turn purplish in fall.įlowers are bell-shaped arranged in drooping clusters, white to pale pink and produced in the early summer. They are bright green, leathery, glossy, thick, simple, obovate, oblong, or elliptic. Leaves grow alternately and are oval, 5–30 mm (0.2–1.2 in) long, with a slightly wavy margin, and sometimes with a notched tip. Stems are slender and trailing stem morphology has been examined in detail. Maximum rooting depths of 2 to 11 inches (5-28 cm) have been reported. The dichotomously branched rhizomes possess numerous hairs like roots. The plant has fine, shallow, fibrous roots, and may possess a taproot. It typically grows in dense rhizomatous colonies and frequently forms mats. Soils may be derived from a variety of parent materials including sandstone, gneiss, granite, and glacial outwash sands and gravel. The plant prefers shallow, poorly developed mineral soil as well as on drained peat. In mature forests, plants often grow on top of decaying tree stumps. It is normally found growing on exposed sites, such as windswept crags, bare headlands, rocky ledges, scree, sea cliffs, hilly rocky barrens, and mountain summits, high moors, heath barrens, sand dunes, and in peat lands, forest swamps, and bogs. Lingonberry is a low, creeping, evergreen subshrub that grows about 2 to 6 inches (5-15 cm) in height. When used primarily for their health benefits, lingonberries are also often juiced or ingested in supplemental form. Also known as foxberries or cowberries, these tart red berries can be eaten raw or they can be processed into delicious lingonberry jam or syrup (popular in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries). They have been used for centuries both as food and as medicine. Lingonberries are smaller, juicier and slightly sweeter than their cousins – cranberries. Other berries such as blueberries, cranberries, and raspberries are more popular and well-known lingonberries are gaining massive popularity in the world due to their health benefits. The specific name is derived from Latin vitis (“vine”) and idaea, the feminine form of idaeus (literally “from Mount Ida”, used in reference to raspberries Rubus idaeus). The genus name Vaccinium is a classical Latin name for a plant, possibly the bilberry or hyacinth, and may be derived from the Latin bacca, berry. The name lingonberry originates from the Swedish name lingon for the species, and is derived from the Norse lyngr, or heather. The plant belongs to heath family, the same family as the cranberry and blueberry. The lingonberry fruit, also known as foxberry, quailberry, bearberry, beaverberry, mountain cranberry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, cougarberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry, redberry and alpine cranberry is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America. An Old-Fashioned Cocktail made with Dryck Lingon concentrate from IKEA instead of simple syrup.Lingonberry scientifically known as Vaccinium vitis-idaea is a short evergreen shrub that bears edible fruits. I like Wild Turkey 101 for this sort of cocktail – just be aware that the higher alcohol content will likely hit your bloodstream a little harder than an 80 proof. You really want that bourbon-flavor to cut through and balance the sweetness of the concentrate. In fact, a cheaper bourbon that has a little more of a rough flavor will work best here. Second, you don’t need to invest in an expensive bourbon for this cocktail. Here’s a couple of tips: First, because the Dryck Lingon is very concentrated and very sweet, err on the side of less versus more and adjust the level of sweetness for your personal taste. However in it’s concentrated form it can be used as a flavored simple syrup, which in turn can be used as a replacement for the sugar cube in a traditional old-fashioned. It is meant to be diluted with water to make lingonberry juice (similar to what you can get out of those machines at the IKEA Cafe). The main ingredient that shapes this cocktail is Dryck Lingon, which is the lingonberry concentrate that you can find in the IKEA Marketplace. I give you the IKEA Lingonberry Old-Fashioned! ![]() This recipe isn’t strictly an old-fashioned but, ticks all the boxes for a good quick cocktail that is a real crowd pleaser. I’m a big fan of bourbon, and I love a good old-fashioned. Here is a little something that I put together last year and never got around to posting – a little IKEA hack for a fun cocktail.
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