It is often called a "cowberry" and is a member of the cranberry family. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar] Reference
Ground cover consists of cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea (R), bilberry V. myrtillus and reindeer mosses Cladonia spp. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Komi Forests, Russian Federation] Reference
I was fairly stumped about what a cowberry would be, until Wikipedia informed me they're the same thing as lingonberries. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
According to a few websites the cowberry is also known as the lingonberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Booze] Reference
One day she's out tending sheep on the hillside, when she comes across a cowberry, which she eats 'Marjatta' suggests the Finnish word marja, 'berry'. From Wordnik.com. [The Berry and the Bath] Reference
None of us were particularly knowledgeable about the culinary habits of Russians, so we were pleased to find ourselves in a reasonably stylish restaurant looking over the Neva river with a menu which featured a wide range of choices such as beet carpaccio salad; cottage cheese and herbs; venison medallions with cowberry sauce and pelmeni stuffed with veal and pumpkin. From Wordnik.com. [Pablo Ganguli: Visitors in Russia] Reference
Autumn recipe: Lingonberry or cowberry sauce for venison steaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Also important: you also serve with (cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry) jam. From Wordnik.com. [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference
A cowberry grows from a pine's stub in a forest near the remote village of Suprany, some 350 km northeast of photo. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Forest-CO2 scheme needs cash to save species - study] Reference
Smoked deer ham with cowberry and cheese cream (background), Peccary fillet salad with lettuce and nuts (foreground - there wasn't much peccary). From Wordnik.com. [Balderdash] Reference
From moss-topped knuckle rings to couture heels layered in cowberry leaves, here are seven eco-accessories that put the "green" in green fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Had some of Granma's (the mother of Jenafor, the lady who owns the hotel) wholewheat pancakes with cowberry syrup and sausages to prepare us for the long day ahead in the Buggy and then piled into the bus for the half an hour journey out onto the edge of the Tundra. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
The salmon stuffed with homemade cottage cheese, cowberry, white grapes and mint with a creamy vanilla sauce (548 rubles. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
Smoked deer ham with cowberry and cheese cream. From Wordnik.com. [Balderdash] Reference
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