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rayed artemis clam

[English] plural rayed artemis clams

The rayed Artemis clam is a dirty white to light brown clam which occurs from Norway to the Iberian Peninsula and into the Mediterranean.

Ray's bream

[English]

Ray's bream (US: pomfret) is a type of sea bream found in the waters of South East Asia. It has white flesh similar to that of turbot or sole, though it does not have such good flavour. It is also a small, oily, Atlantic fish.

razor shell clam

[English] plural razor shells

The term 'razor shells' applies to almost any of the long clams which bed themselves into the sand. They are most often used in stews or served raw or grilled and served with a little lemon juice. Razor shells are quite easy to coax out of the sand by the judicious sprinkling of salt. IThey will then start to move out of the sand, but you have to grab them with both hands and hold on hard.

Rearguard

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A variety of Savoy cabbage.

Records potato

[English] plural Records potatoes

Records ois a good floury variety of potato.

Red Ace beetroot

[English] plural Red Ace beetroots

A variety of beetroot in which the round red roots which are very tender.

Red Alert tomato

[English] plural Red Alert tomatoes

A determinate variety of red tomato with very good flavour. High quality fruits grow on spreading plants. Crops early in the season.

Red Anjou pear

/red oh'-JHOO/
[English]

Anjou is a variety of pear which originated in Angers on the Loire in France and introduced into the UK in the early part of the 19th Century by Thomas Rivers. The red version, Red Anjou or Rose D'Anjou It is now grown successfully in the Uniteed States where it is picked in late October and eaten from November to January. Many of the fruits are almost round in shape.

red-backed sandpiper

[English] plural red-backed sandpipers

Dunlin (US: red-backed sandpiper). A small coastal wader which in summer has a distinctive black patch on its breast.

Red Baldwin Pippin apple

/RED BAWLD-win PI-pin/
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A name for Baldwin. A variety of mottled, medium to large, yellow eating apple streaked with dark red and crimson which was found by Mr John Ball on a farm in Lowell, Wilmington in Massachusetts some time around 1740. It was named Pecker or Woodpecker and then renamed in the early in the 1800s. It is a crisp apple with a slightly tart flavour and having a tough skin and yellowish-white flesh. It is a late-season apple, which is picked from mid-October in South-East England is stored and is at its best from December to April. In the United States it is picked in September in warm regions and until November in colder. Baldwin was an extremely popular apple until several million trees were killed off in the severe winter of 1918.