Morello cherries are large, near black, sour cherries used in cooking and in making jams (US: jellies) and syrups. They are often preserved in wine or syrup for serving as a condiment or dessert sauce.
The morel mushroom is a highly prized wild fungus found in the spring, particularly in mountains. It has deep indentations on an elongated cap, giving it the appearance of a small brain or a brown, crinkly honeycomb, on a white stem. It is actually poisonous if raw, so make sure that it is cooked. The indentations are a perfect place for insects so you will need to clean them thoroughly. The morel can be mistaken for the false morel, which is poisonous, so take care. (If gathering mushrooms you must be absolutely certain what you have before you eat them as many are very poisonous.)
A type of sand lobster. Sand lobsters are any of a variety of small crustaceans bearing a resemblance to lobsters. There are many of them, including bay bug, bay lobster, shovel-nosed lobster and rudder-nosed lobster which is similar to a slipper lobster. Moreton Bay bugs and Balmain bugs are available commercially. Moreton Bay bugs are slightly more triangular than the Balmain bug.
Blackbeans. These almost conker-like beans are found in the tropical rainforest of north eastern Australia, often found along creeks and rivers. When crushed the leaves smell almost like cucumber. The seeds, held in a generous pod, are poisonous in their raw state. However, as with many other things, the aboriginals found way to make use of these and found that, by baking them on hot coals, ground and then washed in continuously running fresh water for ten days or so, they could make an edible flour. These were formed into shapes and then baked. Not very appetising but good source of starch when you are scraping your sustenance from such a hostile environment. It is recommended that you don't attempt to eat these beans. Even the aboriginals did not eat them except in times of scarcity.
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A mortar is a vessel made from a hard material such marble, stone or metal, having a cup-shaped cavity, in which ingredients used in pharmacy, cookery, etc., are pounded with a pestle. Evidence of early mortars and pestles has been found in souther France, dating to around 10,000 BC and used by the Azilian culture. These were used for grinding grain which would have been used for a type of crude porridge, but became the precursors of mahcinery for grounding corn and the advent of breads.
