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Charlotte Mason, on Making ‘An Excellent Plumb Pudding’

Here’s a late C18th recipe for what amounts to a slightly less rich and spicy version of a modern-day Christmas Pud.

Published December 7, 2022
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged C18th, Charlotte Mason, currants, plum, pudding, raisins, recipe

Harvest 2022 – Top Fruit from the Allotment Orchard

Here are the extended highlights of this year’s harvest of apples, pears, quinces, plums and damsons. Top fruit galore!

Published October 23, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Top Fruit Harvesting Tagged apple, cordon, damson, harvest, medlar, pear, plum, quince, stepover, top fruit

Robert May, on Preserving Green Fruits

Here’s a quick seventeenth century guide to preserving green or under-ripe fruit: gooseberries, plums, pippins, peaches and grapes.

Published June 11, 2022
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged apple, gooseberry, grape, peach, pippin, plum, preserving

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

Orchard Visit: Two at Phillips Park, Prestwich

A winter walk leads to the discovery of not one but two new orchards, one on the site of a former kitchen garden.

Published December 30, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Visits Tagged apple, Bury, forest garden, greengage, Incredible Edibles, Manchester, new orchard, Phillips Park, plum, Prestwich

Plot #79 Orchard Year in Review, 2021 Edition

We’ve had a mixed year on our allotment plot orchard. Here’s a round-up of the good, the bad and the downright ugly.

Published November 28, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Orchard Work Tagged 2021 update, apple, apple canker, codling moth, fireblight, medlar, pear, pigeon, Plot #79, plum

Mary Smith, on Drying ‘Green Gage Plumbs’

This eighteenth century method for drying greengages calls for candying your plum(b)s in syrup before setting them to dry.

Published September 29, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged C18th, drying, greengage, Mary Smith, plum, preserved fruit, sugar syrup

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

Au Revoir to Pear, Plum and Damson Blossom?

Two nights of bad weather after early blossom has bloomed is bad news, but hopefully not the end of this year’s crop.

Published April 11, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Science Tagged blossom, damson, frost, pear, plum, severe weather

‘A Lady’, on Making Paste of Plumbs

The anonymous author of this 18th century tract takes time our from moralising to make something jammy.

Published March 26, 2021
Categorised as Orchard Cookery Tagged A Lady, C18th, plum, plum recipe, preserved fruit

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When I bite into #heritage #apples like D'Arcy Spice the aroma reminds me of the village sweet shop I visited as a child. Such apples were valued for taste and storage ability - NOT bred to be transported halfway across the #planet in #plastic and thrown on a #supermarket shelf!

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Today from 13.30, I shall be helping out with the winter pruning @HMount_Orchard in Greenmount, Bury and doing a quick tutorial for anyone who's interested in learning more about pruning principles. Do come along if you're in the area. Looks like it'll be a lovely afternoon.

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