Winter Pruning a Small ‘Brown Turkey’ Fig Tree
It’s fig-pruning season, and our backyard tree was due for a trim. Here’s how I went about it.
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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.
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A Late-C14th Recipe for ‘Tart de Brymlent’
Here’s a recipe from the Fourme of Cury, for a pie with a filling that might sound a little unusual to modern culinary sensibilities.
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William Rabisha’s 1675 Recipe ‘To Pickle Green Figgs’
I’ve been looking for a good way to make use of drastically under-ripe figs; I wonder if this C17th pickling recipe might fit the bill?
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Orchard Visit: Airfield Estate, Dundrum, Dublin
This 38-acre working farm and education centre offers a great many mature trees, vines and more for the fruit enthusiast to enjoy.
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My Fruit Harvest Highlights – 2023 Edition
It’s my 2023 fruit growing round-up! The highs and the lows, the good and the bad, the weird and the wonderful.
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Back Garden Fig Tree – Autumn 2023 Update
Checking back in with our fig tree, badly frost-pruned in May 2021, to see just how strong its regrowth has been.
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Jeanette C. Van Duyn’s 1921 Recipe for ‘Fig Preserve Dainty’
Here are the building blocks of a quick, easy and apparently improvised dessert to help you use up some of your stored fruit preserves.
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Oh Bring Us A Figgy Pudding (Or Else..!)
Fine, you can have the pudding! Just stop singing at me. And you have to promise not to come back again tomorrow, okay?
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A Frost-Pruned Fig Tree, and What Happened Next
Last year our fig tree was hit by a late frost. Every apical bud and fruitlet was killed. But that was far from the end of the story…
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More Fruit Stories from Atlas Obscura
Here’s another selection of fruit-related stories from the Atlas Obscura archives.
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A Mid-C15th Recipe for ‘Fygeye’
Another medieval fruit pudding for you, this time a concoction of figs, ale and breadcrumbs, spiced with cinnamon.
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Now Collecting Historical Orchard Recipes
I’ve started putting together an index page of the archive recipes that I’m posting on the site.
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A Late-C14th Recipe for ‘Comadore’
Anyone for a 14th century recipe for what sounds distinctly like a fried, fruit-filled doughnut?
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Thomas Dawson’s 1594 Recipe for ‘Apple Pescods’
Fried fruity things, with apples, figs, dates, currants and spices? What’s not to like?
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Planting Our Fig Tree
In which we introduce our new fig tree to its fig-pit home.
