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bin end

[English] plural bin ends

Small quantities of wine sold off by wine merchants as their stocks run low. There is nothing wrong with these wines. On the contrary, they are often bargains.

Bing cherry

[English] plural Bing cherries

The bing cherry is a very juicy variety of round, plump cherry with skin coloured deep red to purplish-black. The flesh is purple red with dark purple juice.

binge

[English]

To eat and/or drink a great deal over a short period of time.

bingleberry

[English] plural bingleberries

A variety of dewberry.

Binkidel tomato

[English] plural Binkidel tomatoes

A variety of pinkish-brown cherry tomato, which grows on long trusses on an indeterminate vine. It is one of the Del series developed from Gardener's Delight by Lewis Derby of the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute. Exclusive to Simpson's Seeds.

Bintje potato

/bee-teh-ah/
[English] plural Bintje potatoes

Blintje is a hardy, high yield, yellow-skinned potato with yellow flesh from northern Europe. It is suitable for all cooking methods but is particularly good for chips and in salads.

birch beer

[English]

A carbonated soft drink made from the sap of the black birch tree. Rather like root beer.

birch bolete

[English] plural birch bolete mushrooms

The birch bolete is a dark variety of mushroom which grows in woods at higher elevations around 1800 ft and can be found from the first days of August. It has a swollen rough stem and is a little like a cep mushroom. It is edible. (If gathering mushrooms you must be absolutely certain what you have before you eat them as many are very poisonous.)

birch rough stalk mushroom

[English]

Black boletus mushroom. Excellent to eat from August to October whether raw in salads or cooked or preserved and also freezes well.

bird

[English] plural birds

A bird is used to describe a thin slice of meat, usually veal or beef, stuffed and rolled. A paupiette, roulade or beef olive.