Tender roots can be cooked like parsnips. Dried seeds can be used as a seasoning. Cranberries Vaccinium spp. Open bogs, exposed rocky or dry peaty soil. Cooked fruit, jelly, cold drink.
Cranberries keep for quite sometime.
Salad, cooked vegetable. The slender runners send down fleshy underground branches which can be chopped and added to soups or boiled. The taste is slightly sweet, suggesting parsnips. Tea, fresh or cooked fruit. The fresh leaves make an excellent tea.