Gallery: Fruit Blossom, Early Spring 2026 Edition
Early blossom has been hit hard by a cold snap around these parts, but not before I snapped a few photos.
-
-
Fruit Harvest Highlights – Summer 2025 Edition
2025 has been an incredible year for all types of fruit. Here’s part one of my harvest highlights.
-
Hannah Glasse’s 1747 Recipe for ‘Apricot Pudding’
Anyone for an eighteenth century apricot custard recipe?
-
John Nott’s 1723 Recipe for ‘Apricock Cakes’
This C18th recipe is probably for a hard candy sweetmeat, rather than a cake as we know it, but it still sounds delicious to me.
-
Mary Kettilby’s 1734 Recipe for ‘Apricot or Quince Cakes’
This C18th “cake” recipe doesn’t actually contain any cake, it’s a preserving method that involves just fruit pulp and sugar.
-
Jeanette C. Van Duyn’s 1921 Recipe for ‘Apricot Maizena Mould’
Maizena? Maizena? Whatever could it be, and how do you ‘mould’ it? This C20th recipe has all the answers.
-
More Fruit Stories from Atlas Obscura
Here’s another selection of fruit-related stories from the Atlas Obscura archives.
