All about the USA 3, Unit 26 ,The Cranberry,Reading
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The cranberry is a North American fruit that grows on a . The cranberry is small , round ,red , and very . Native Americans used the for food and medicine. When first come from England in the 1600s, they liked these berries ,too.The settlers had never seen the berries before. They decided to call them "" because birds called cranes ate them.
The cranberry bush does not grow everywhere in the United States. It grows only in special in northern states like Massachusetts and Wisconsin. Cranberries when the weather starts to become cold. We see cranberries in the stores in the fall.Many people eat cranberries as part of the feast of Thanksgiving in November.
Sometimes cranberries are cooked and made into a or a jelly.Cranberries taste less bitter after they are cooked. Cranberry growers separate the best cranberries from all the rest .It's hard to recognize the best cranberries just by looking. So cranberry growers use a special method , which was developed by accident by a man named John Webb.
One day, as John Webb was taking a of berries down some steps, he the berries. While he was them up, he noticed something interesting. The bad berries had stayed on the top steps , and the best berries had bounced down all the way to the bottom.Today, cranberry growers use a seven-step test to separate berries.The best cranberries are the ones that down seven steps!