Where can I buy Bilberries (fresh or preserved) ?
Funnily enough, although bilberries are an indigenous British fruit and blueberries are not, it’s easier to get the American blueberry in the UK. Bilberries (also known as blaeberries, whinberries, whortleberries etc) are wild berry related to the blueberry but they taste quite different – blueberries are bigger and a lot blander. You can substitute blueberries for bilberries but they will not taste the same. The best way to get bilberries is to pick them yourself – easier if you live near moors or hills, although they are quite hard work to pick (probably another reason why they’re so rare in the supermarkets). If foraging isn’t an option, the main place I’ve come across them is in Morrisons in bottles, as somebody else mentioned. The bottled bilberries are actually really good and work very well in pies etc. If you want to cook something like a bilberry pie, I’d recommend using bottled bilberries in preference to fresh blueberries, in order to get the right flavour. You’re unlikely t
