the not so secret ingredient for our best cheesecake [see guavaberry-lingonberry cheesecake notes] sold in syrup, drink and preserves formats at IKEA USA which all began just a few miles away from the dr bob enterprises home office in the northwestern philly 'burbs in the late 1980s. Accompanying their (cheap!) Swedish meatball platters on the side like applesauce with ham or cranberry sauce with turkey in American cuisine. In fact googling "lingonberry" immediately yields the fact that it is a " dry ground cranberry" or " mountain cranberry". Interesting.

Lingonberries are a dark red soft fruit, traditionally used in Swedish cooking.

small tart red berry member of the cranberry family