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  • Medlar Tart Recipe and Engraving from 1653 To Make a Tart of Medlers Take Medlers that be rotten bletted and stamp them smash them and set them upon a chafin dish with coales heat over the fire and beat two yolks of Eggs
  • Another additon for the complete Herbal This is a medlar a little known fruit which has to be bletted read almost rotten before eating and no I ve not tried one More about the medlar <a href= http en wikipedia org wiki Medlar >Here< a> And my old friend Culpeper has this to say Descript The Tree grows near the bigness of the Quince Tree spreading branches reasonably large with longer and narrower leaves than either the apple or quince and not dented about the edges At the end of the sprigs stand the flowers made of five white great broad pointed leaves nicked in the middle with some white threads also after which comes the fruit of a brownish green colour being ripe bearing a crown as it were on the top which were the five green leaves and being rubbed off or fallen away the head of the fruit is seen to be somewhat hollow The fruit is very harsh before it is mellowed and has usually five hard kernels within it There is another kind hereof nothing differing from the former but that it hath some thorns on it in several places which the other hath not and usually the fruit is small and not so pleasant Time and place They grow in this land and flower in May for the most part and bear fruit in September and October Government and virtues The fruit is old Saturn s and sure a better medicine he hardly hath to strengthen the retentive faculty therefore it stays women s longings The good old man cannot endure women s minds should run a gadding Also a plaister made of the fruit dried before they are rotten and other convenient things and applied to the reins of the back stops miscarriage in women with child They are powerful to stay any fluxes of blood or humours in men or women the leaves also have this quality The decoction of them is good to gargle and wash the mouth throat and teeth when there is any defluxions of blood to stay it or of humours which causes the pains and swellings It is a good bath for women that have their courses flow too abunda

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  • Quince and Medlars Medlars and quince are two curious fruits which were better known in the past and are referred to in literature. The medlar has a vulgar alternative name which I am sure someone will post. Medlars are 'bletted' with means left to go semi rotten before being eaten with a small spoon, watching out for pips. They are also used to make preserves such as medlar jelly, whcih I thk is eaten with roast meat. A few people ask for them. Not everyone's cup of tea. Incidentally, I noticed 2 large medlars laden with fruit in the grounds of Wells cathedral when we visited there 4 years ago. Quince are used to flavour apple dishes, or in slow meat casserole cookery like Lamb tagine, or boiled up with sugar to make a Spanish delicacy called Dulce de Membrillo which is eaten with cheese. Don't ask me for recipes, Google some. You cannot eat raw quince, it is rock hard. These trees were planted thoughtlessly, or else they were planted in the right place and I was being thoughtless when I planted a spinney of larch and spruce right next to them. The larger trees now block out their light and they are overgrown and neglected. This has affected the quince more than the medlars, which seem quite happy to be growing in shade. Whatever, a planning mistake. I might just dig up the quince trees and move them this winter. To be honest I had forgotten they were there. Not fruits for the survivalist, but interesting curiosities for the person who likes to pull surprises out of the hat at dinner ...
  • Dar Williams in Sus*** The Easy Way After a really busy day making oodles of Jam, as the Medlars I picked back in October at Alfriston Clergy House Garden had successfully bletted, I reckon that I deserved a really good night out. Well that's what I got, after I drove through the mist caused by a day of rain over Sus***, to a delightful venue, The Ravenswood Hotel, near Sharpthorne, for a very professionally organised gig, courtesy of Acoustic Sus***. Dar Wiliiams from The States had come to sing us a selection of her lyrically quite excellent songs and to kick off with, I am going to proudly share this video with you, that I captured of Dar singing "The Easy Way", which I just found is the third track on her excellent new album "Promised Land". I bought a CD at the gig which Dar kindly signed for me and I now expect to get hours of pleasure from it. I got to know Dar by audioswapping her songs to accompany a couple of my many videos on here, so it is fitting that I return the compliment and show Dar in truly excellent form, entertaining a discerning, appreciative audience, some having driven all the way from Devon to see her. If everything in my Garden seems rosy to you, after reading these notes, I assure you that is far from true and I will adopt a few of Dar's words from this song, as a slogan, "EASY'S NEVER EASY ANYHOW".