Medlar puree is the key to this recipe - Andrew Crowley If you have medlar trees in your garden, this festive recipe is a delicious way to use the fruit. To make the medlar puree, place the medlars ...

I am always looking for something to add interest to the pan juices from the Sunday roast. Something to introduce richness to a simple gravy or a knife-edge to juices that are too fatty or cloying.

TWIN OAKS, CALIF. — Forty miles east of Bakersfield, in this remote, sparsely settled valley, an orchard rises from the arid scrubland like a medieval vision. It bears a peculiar fruit steeped in ...

It’s medlar season. Which means Mother Moo Creamery in Sierra Madre is making medlar ice cream again -- a rare ice cream from a rare fruit, available for a limited time. The medlar’s a special fruit, ...

No less a literary sage than William Shakespeare dissed it. Today its fleshy, fragrant virtues are extolled by admirers. And although medlar isn't exactly a household word, it is revered by a small ...

Cultivated since Roman times, medlar trees, or Mespilus germanica, are today a rare sight. Yet, this low-maintenance heritage fruit tree has much to offer and is surprisingly easy to grow. I once ...

The French call the medlar tree, cul de chien (translation: dog’s arse). Shakespeare called their fruits “open-arse”. And in a poem, DH Lawrence called medlars "autumnal excrementa". If you’re getting ...