Recipe by: RUTHEY. A pound cake made with yogurt instead of sour cream. I have used this recipe for a long time and had misplaced it. I went to my daughter and had her give me another copy. .
You ar right, it is a berry. The botanical name is carissa carandas I or Carissa congesta Wight. Karonda is the common English name. A variety of this fruit is also called natal plum in English. In hindi, it is called Karwand. In Tamil, it is called Kalakai.
Carambola, also known as starfruit, is the fruit of Averrhoa carambola, a species of tree native to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The fruit is popular throughout Southeast Asia, the South Pacific and parts of East Asia.