Autumn produces two of my favourite fruits; the medlar pictured here, and the quince. The medlar I love because it is such a wonderfully quirky British type of fruit - after all you don't eat it until it 'blets' or rots (it tastes of caramel and is lovely with cheese); and the quince because quite simply it is a wonder of nature. How can such a sour ordinary looking fruit produce such a sublime range of flavour particularly when cut up small and cooked with a little sugar and apple. Divine.
This is a tree I have really wanted to try cultivating as it's so delightfully odd! I have a mulberry now which is doing well in a huge pot. I keep wondering how I could do medlars.
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