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rasher

[English] plural rashers

Slices cut from a side of bacon.

rasp

[English] plural rasps

A cylindrical loaf baked in a special ridged tin so that it is marked, like a caterpillar with short segments, all down its length for ease of slicing.

raspberi

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Cape gooseberry. Physalis. Bitter-sweet, apricot-coloured berries enclosed in papery wraps.

raspberry

[English] plural raspberries

Two types of most commercially grown kinds of raspberry are available, the summer-bearing wild type that produces an abundance of fruit on second-year canes (floricanes) within a relatively short period in mid-summer, and double- or "ever"-bearing plants, which also bear some fruit on first-year canes (primocanes) in the late summer and fall, as well as the summer crop on second-year canes. They can be invasive if not kept in check.

rat's ear fungus

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Judas's ear fungus, often found dried. Dried or fresh they should not be fried, as they explode, but stewed with other ingredients.

rat-tail

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Grenadier or rat-tail; a long, tapering, ash grey marine fish found up to 90 cm (36") long, deep in the Atlantic. Not a very attractive fish and difficult to skin and fillet, so good in soups.

Rattle Pippin apple

/RAH-tuhl PI-pin/
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A variety of conical yellow apple splattered with russet developed in Suffolk in England.

Rattler apple

/RAH-tluhr/
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A variety of yellow eating apple flushed with pinkish red, developed in Somerset in England. They are harvested from September and October.

Ravenna in Emilia-Romagna

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raw milk

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Unpasteurised milk. This is a term often used in describing cheeses made with unpasteurised milk.