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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M. L. Lemery on Making Codlin or Pippin Jelly
This 18th century recipe for a very simple staple – apple jelly – turned out to be typically not so simple to follow, unfortunately…
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Leonard Mascall, on Graffing good Pepins
An intro to Genetic diversity and clonal propagation, sixteenth century style.