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Sussex Yeoman

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A hard, pressed goat's milk cheese made with pasteurised milk in Sussex. A strong, rich cheese which matures for several months.

Sutton's Everyday tomato

[English] plural Sutton's Everyday tomatoes

A 'Dig for Victory' tomato which featured in Sutton's 1940 catalogue. It is a heavy-cropping variety with medium-sized flashy fruits with a mild flavour.

Swabia

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Swahili

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Swaledale

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A Wensleydale-style cheese with a slight hint of lemon. It is soaked in brine. It can also be obtained in oak-smoked versions or flavoured with herbs and beer. This cheese was a winner at the British Cheese Awards. (PDO).

swamp blueberry

[English] plural swamp blueberries

High-bush blueberry. The cultivated varieties of blueberry growing, not surprisingly, on high bushes anything up to 4.5 meters (15 ft ) high. These are the blueberries most commonly seen. The rabbit-eye or low-bush varieties are wild varieties producing smaller fruit.

swamp potato

[English] plural swamp potatoes

Arrowhead. Chinese water plants with leaves shaped like arrowheads. Both leaves and shoots may be used. The shoots are crunchy with a slightly bitter flavour, and are used as starch in Chinese and Japanese cuisine. It is also described as a tuberous vegetable similar to a lily bulb with thin layered leaves.

Swan

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A sweet English plum variety, good for making ice creams and sorbets.

Swatow mustard

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Chinese mustard cabbage. A vegetable with small leaves carried on long stalks. The leaves have a strong flavour of mustard, hence the name, and are used in like spinach, that is steamed, boiled, used in soups and salads and may also be be turned into a sauerkraut-like dish by pickling.

sweating

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A method of stewing foods in butter with the lid on. This steams the food, softening it and flavouring it.