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A Portuguese yeast bread that is traditionally served to celebrate Epiphany. The dough, prepared with white bread flour or all-purpose flour, is enriched with butter and eggs, flavored with raisins, pine nuts, and orange and lemon zest, and topped with candied fruits, sugar, and citrus zest.

A heat monitor and gauge used to measure temperatures of 100°F to 400°F or higher in hot substances and liquids, when heating sugar for making candy, jam, syrup, and grease for deep frying.

A bladed speciality knife for removing the cores and seeds of eggplant, melons, potatoes, or zucchini.

A seedless variety of the Fuyu persimmon that was first grown in Israel and now is being raised throughout the world.

A fruit that is related to the pear and grown in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the United States.

A pear-shaped fruit, also known as the cactus pear, that is produced from the tropical cactus plant known as the Prickly Pear cactus.

The edible part of a plant, shrub, or tree developed from a flower and consisting of one or more seeds and a mass of juicy flesh that is used as food.

A Spanish yeast bread made with bread flour or all-purpose flour that is traditionally served on the eve of Epiphany (Twelfth Night).

A small native fruit that is common to the bush country of Australia. Like many of the bush produce from the Australian region, this fruit is small and grown on bushes that can be found in a variety of country areas.

An orange colored autumn fruit with a smooth skin and a reddish orange jelly-like flesh, which has a very tart flavor prior to ripening and a delicately sweet flavor, somewhat like a sweet plum when ripe.

A medium sized oval berry, dark red in color that grows on small bushy trees in tropical climates. Native to Africa, this berry is similar in shape to an olive and provides a meaty pulp surrounding a small seed.

A mid-sized to large citrus fruit that is grown in several different variations, all similar in taste and aroma.

A fruit-based confectionery common to Spanish regions that is made from quince fruit, sugar and water that is cooked together until it becomes a thick syrup.

A fruit-based confectionery common to Spanish speaking regions that is made from quince fruit, sugar and water that is cooked together to become a thick syrup.

A fruit native to China that is much like a date in its appearance, flavor, and texture, but is not related to the date.

A fruit native to China that is much like a date in its appearance, flavor, and texture, but is not related to the date.

The candied pad or paddle (leaf) of the prickly pear cactus that is sweetened by packing the pad in a sugar syrup solution.

A rich white or dark chocolate candy containing a center of ingredients such as chocolate, cream, sugar, corn syrup, cocoa butter, flavorings, caramel, nuts, and fruit that are mixed together and formed into a ball shape.

cumquat, kumquate, cumquate, cumquawt, kumquawt,

A sweet alcoholic beverage, made as a blend of ingredients that have been enfused with the flavor of fruits, spices, herbs, creams, or various types of nuts to create the final result.