Carob bean flour. The pulp from inside the bean is dried and ground into a powder which is used as a substitute for chocolate powder. Also known as St John's bread.
Dunlin (US: red-backed sandpiper). A small coastal wader which in summer has a distinctive black patch on its breast.
Cassava. Manioc. Yuca. Fleshy, starchy tubers with tough brown skin and crisp white flesh, originally from Brazil but now widely cultivated. There are two types, sweet and bitter. Avoid the bitter one. Throughout the Amazon basin there are 26 varieties, each thriving under different conditions. The process of making it into flour or tapioca removes the toxins.
Cassia bark. A rolled bark which is often mistaken for cinnamon, but is coarser in both texture and flavour.
A very attractive crisp apple with good flavour raised in 1947 at the Balsgård Fruit Breeding Institute in Sweden as a cross between James Grieve and Worcester Pearmain. It is pale green, ripening to yellow, flushed with bright scarlet and flecked with deeper red. It was renamed in England by Sir James Mount. It has poor keeping properties, like its Worcester Pearmain parent. It provides good, almost strawberry-flavoured juice. Early-season apple is harvested from early September in South-East England and has poor storage properties.
