bakeapple n also baked apple, bake(d) apple berry [phonetics unavailable]. DC ~ (Nfld: 1775-), baked-apple berry (Nfld: 1818-). See BAKING APPLE, BOG-APPLE.
   1 A low plant growing in bogs and producing an amber berry in late summer; cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus).
   1792 CARTWRIGHT Gloss i, ix Baked Apples. The fruit of a plant so called. 1858 [LOWELL] i, 94 The sweet flower of the bake-apple, and other pretty things grow quietly upon this ground, which is scarce habitable for man. 1863 HIND [ii], 145 In favourable seasons the country is covered with many varieties of berrybearing shrubs ... and the bake-apple. 1902 DELABARRE 169 The bake-apple or cloudberry ... grows thickly as far north as Hebron, but very thinly beyond. 1915 SOUTHCOTT 13 ~ Stem simple, 2 to 3 leaved, 1-flowered. Leaves 5-lobed, serrate wrinkled. Petals white. Fruit amber colored. 1916 HAWKES 35 Chief among the berries is the baked-apple (akpik), also called the cloudberry. Its four-petalled white blossoms are seen covering the hillsides and swamps almost as soon as the snow is gone. 1924 ENGLAND 268 Large areas of the Vikings' land, amid pale horizons under gray skies, are just rocks, skinned over with a spongy tundra of moss where only partridge berries and baked-apple berries grow, where only caribou and ptarmigan thrive. T 175/6-65 The middle part of the island was all marsh, all bakeapples, and marsh berries, too, in the fall.
   2 The succulent amber fruit of the cloudberry, resembling a raspberry, gathered in late summer and eaten raw or cooked; also attrib.
   [1775] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 96 I saw the first baked apples. [1778] ibid 360 After dinner I went with all my family to Slink Point, where we picked a bowl full of baked apples. 1792 ibid Gloss i, ix Baked Apples. The fruit of a plant so called, from the similarity of taste to that of the pulp of a roasted apple. 1818 CHAPPELL 138 The dry moss is variegated by innumerable clusters of ... what is called, by the fishermen, the baked-appleberry. This last fruit abounds in LABRADOR. 1887 Telegram Christmas No 5 ... bowls of bake-apple and redberry preserve. 1947 TANNER 740 From about the middle of August the women and children are engaged in berry-picking, especially bake-apples ... and plumboy. T 198-65 I seen places on the Labrador I was able to pick thousands of gallons of bakeapples, as far as your eye could see, in level ground, kind of a bog. 1974 PINSENT 77 They had their refreshments, which included tea-buns and bakeapple jam.

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