Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Cook's Guide entry for Lingonberry along with all the recipes employing Lingonberry presented on this site, with 15 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Lingonberry recipes added to this site.

These recipes, all contain Lingonberry as a major wild food ingredient.

The lingonberry is the fruit of Vaccinium vitis-idaea which is also called cowberry, partridgeberry (in Newfoundland and Labrador), mountain cranberry or foxberry and is a is a small evergreen shrub in the Eraicaceae (flowering plant) family.

Cowberries collected in the wild are a popular fruit in northern and eastern Europe, notably in Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Karelia (Russia), where they can be picked on both public and private lands in accordance with the northern European tradition of "everyman's rights". Because the berries are quite tart, they are almost always cooked and sweetened before eating in the form of lingonberry jam, compote, juice, or syrup. The raw fruits are also frequently simply mashed with sugar, which preserves most of their nutrients and flavor and even enables storing them at room temperature (in closed but not necessarily sealed containers) and used ans an accompaniment to game meats.