We are excited to share our first contribution to this month’s #ArchivesPotluck challenge: the Tart of Medlers from A Book of Fruits & Flovvers (London, 1653). The recipe reads:
Take medlers that be rotten, and stamp them, and set them upon a chafin-dish with coales, and beat in two yolks of eggs, boyling till it be somewhat thick, then season it with sugar, cinamon, and ginger, and lay it in paste.
Medlars are a fruit resembling a large rose hip that appear to be rotten when they are ready to eat. Their flavor and texture have been compared to apple butter.
Have you ever tried a medlar?
A book of fruits & flovvers. Shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine. London : printed by M.S. for Tho. Jenner at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, London, 1653. [2], 49, [1] p. : ill. ; 4⁰.
