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lady's mantle

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Lady's mantle is a common garden and wild plant. Leaves and shoots of some species can be dried and used to make a herbal tea.

Lady Square chile

[English] plural Lady Square chiles

A variety of green chilli which is quite thick but tapers.

lady's smock

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Lady's smock was used sometimes in the past as a substitute for watercress.

Lady Sudeley apple

/LAY-dee SOOD-lee/
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A variety of eating apple with firm yellow flesh and yellow skin streaked with red. It was raised by at Sharsted Farm at Chatham in Kent by Mr Jacobs around 1849. He became a taxidermist and sheep vet (let's hope the two were not connected) and took the apple to Petworth in Sussex. It was first named Jacob's Strawberry and subsequently introduced commercially by Mr George Bunyard in Kent as Lady Sudeley. It received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1884. This early-season apple is harvested from early in September in South-East England and has poor storage properties.

Lady Williams apple

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A crisp, sweet eating apple, fragrant with a pale green, yellow and red skin, flushed, striped and streaked in any combination. It arose on Bononia Farm at Paynedale in Donnybrook in Western Australia where it was found by Mr AR Williams. It may be a cross between Granny Smith and Jonathan or Rokewood.

Laguiole knives ®

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High quality French knives

Lairobell

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Lairobell is a hard, farmhouse goat's milk cheese made from raw milk on the Orkneys. This modern cheese is suitable for vegetarians.

lake char(r)

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Lake trout. A freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. As in Europe, this char is not a common fish. Lake trout were fished commercially in the Great Lakes until lampreys, overharvest and pollution severely reduced the stocks. Commercial fisheries still exist in some areas of the Great Lakes and smaller lakes in northern Canada.

Lake Como in Lombardy

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Lake District

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