Tamarind. A sour-sweet fruit, sometimes known as the Indian date, used as a souring agent. It comes in long, dry brown pods which look almost like dried broad bean pods. Inside is a long, segmented fruit, like a long brown caterpillar. Each segment contains a hard, shiny black seed. As the pods dry the fruit becomes sweeter. A visitor from Mauritius suggested shaking the tamarind and, if you could hear that the fruit had detached and was rattling a little inside the pod, you would find that the fruit was sweet. All you need to do is to remove the pod and then chew the fruit, discarding the seeds. It is also available mashed and formed into a pulpy block or as a juice. In this form it is used like lemon juice.
Summer cep or bolete mushroom. A round, brown-capped mushroom with nutty flavour.
Oak leaf lettuce. A lettuce with dark red to green leaves.
Acorn. The fruit of the oak tree, shaped like a tear drop. Some varieties are edible and can be ground to use as a coffee substitute or mixed with flour and used in bread.
