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 ...

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 ...

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.

Martha Stewart has to wait until this fruit in her garden is extremely ripe if she wants to enjoy its apple butter-like taste ...

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 ...

Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear? In 2011, ...