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.
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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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Gertrude Mackay’s 1913 Recipe for ‘Apple Macedoine’
Here’s a light, tasty apple dish that sounds perfect for a summer dessert, or an aperitif, if you hold to the author’s serving suggestion.
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Robert May’s 1665 Recipe for ‘Preserving Green Fruits’
Here’s a quick seventeenth century guide to preserving green or under-ripe fruit: gooseberries, plums, pippins, peaches and grapes.
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Marion Harland’s 1875 Recipe for ‘Frosted Peaches’
This nineteenth century peach of a recipe is guaranteed to add a bit of sparkle to your dinner party dessert course.
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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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Now Collecting Historical Orchard Recipes
I’ve started putting together an index page of the archive recipes that I’m posting on the site.
