Most boiling is theoretical in the book, as a possible preparation method for dwarves or hobbits.  In Chapter 13, it’s used as a gerundive to describe the motion of the water.

• 01.066 Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl;
• 02.002 boiled water,
• 02.080 and boil them,
• 02.086 and boil them.
• 02.087 “No good boiling ’em!
• 02.092 and boil them next time.
• 05.042 The answer’s not a kettle boiling over,
• 06.074 fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
• 13.048 there issued a boiling water,

We hear about the blackberries only as things that Bilbo doesn’t have at the moment.

• 04.003 and blackberrying,
• 06.039 but the blackberries were still only

Apparently it’s difficult to classify cram:

• 13.064 but it is biscuitish,

To my surprise, we only find reference to berries in the context of the elven parts of Mirkwood.

• 09.005 On his head was a crown of berries
• 09.053 Where the berry swells and fills

OED gives us banquet as “a sumptuous entertainment of food and drink”, which will do for the banquets mentioned in Lake-town.  I do think, however, that hobbits would approve of the obsolete second meaning of “a light repast between meals”.

• 10.039 and even after that his speeches at banquets were limited to

“banquet, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 13 May 2015.

I am told that my bannocks are too thin, but they get the job done:

• 1 cup milk
• 1 egg
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

cook as pancakes on a very buttery pan

• 03.015 The bannocks are baking!

I must admit, I always pan-fry my bannocks…

• 01.036 which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.
• 03.015 The bannocks are baking!
• 06.078 Bake and toast ’em, fry and roast ’em!

Bilbo’s only real bacon is from the Trollish provisions in Chapter 2, but thoughts of it follow him through his dark times.

• 02.116 and bacon to toast
• 05.002 He thought of himself frying bacon
• 06.088 Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like
• 06.089 because the bacon knows
• 07.001 nor tea nor toast nor bacon for his breakfast,
• 08.074 in thoughts of bacon
• 16.047 he was dreaming of eggs and bacon.

All of the ale is in the first two chapters.  Ales are beers brewed by top fermentation, compared to lagers.

• 01.046 Some called for ale,
• 01.056 and ale –
• 01.090 and ale! -‘
• 02.116 also one barrel of ale which was still full.
• 02.116 and plenty of ale,

“ale, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 13 May 2015.

Acorns are nauseating if eaten raw – Bilbo is hungry indeed in this passage:

• 07.024 and then Bilbo felt so hungry that he would have eaten acorns,