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Jeanette C. Van Duyn on Making ‘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.

Published March 31, 2023
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged C20th, dessert, fig, Jeanette C Van Duyn, preserved fruit

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?

Published December 24, 2022
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged Christmas, fig, pudding, raisin, yuletide

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…

Published February 26, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Morphology Tagged fig, frost damage, growth pattern, regrowth

More Fruit Stories from Atlas Obscura

Here’s another selection of fruit-related stories from the Atlas Obscura archives.

Published January 18, 2022
Categorised as Linking Out Tagged apple, apple dessert, apricot, Atlas Obscura, family tree, fig, grapefruit, heritage varieties, lemon, manicheel, miscellany, nectarine, orchards, peach, persimmon, plum, torture orchard

The Austin Manuscripts, on Making Fygeye

Another medieval fruit pudding for you, this time a concoction of figs, ale and breadcrumbs, spiced with cinnamon.

Published May 12, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged Austin Manuscripts, C15th, fig, fygeye

Now Collecting Historical Orchard Recipes

I’ve started putting together an index page of the archive recipes that I’m posting on the site.

Published April 25, 2021
Categorised as Site Updates Tagged apple, bullace, cherry, damson, fig, medlar, nectarine, orchard cookery, orchard history, peach, pear, plum, pluot, quince, research project, warden

Planting Our Fig Tree

In which we introduce our new fig tree to its fig-pit home.

Published February 19, 2017
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged fig, fig pit, mycorrhizal fungi, tree planting
  1. Darren T on Gallery: Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to FruitJune 4, 2023

    You're welcome! :)

  2. Camille on Gallery: Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to FruitJune 3, 2023

    Sorry for the delayed response, but thank you very much for all this information. I will keep it to refer…

  3. Darren T on How To: Thin Out Apple and Pear FruitletsJune 3, 2023

    Thank you Oltice, I'm very glad it was helpful. Thinning really is one of the most useful and important things…

  4. Oltice on How To: Thin Out Apple and Pear FruitletsJune 2, 2023

    This was absolutely brilliant. I know now why my apple tree doesn't produce any fruits this year, after having millions…

  5. Darren T on Dealing With Pear Midge Problems the Organic WayJune 2, 2023

    I'm sorry Ruth, but I don't have much experience with spraying, so I wouldn't know what to advise there. I…

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