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ButteryHOLsomeness



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PostPosted: Thu May 12, 05 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

cab wrote:
ButteryHOLsomeness wrote:

i think that's what i'd do with them as well...not quite sure i can bring myself to actually allow fruit to rot before i eat it


Bletting isn't the same as rotting.

Fruit have two ways of spreading seeds; plan A is to be eaten and deposited elsewhere in a nice pile of fertiliser. Plan B happens if you don't get eaten; you start producing enzymes to break down the fruit and allow the seed to escape, in a fruit that very soon will rot. It's like when a tomato has gone soft but hasn't gone moldy yet, or when a banana goes soft and black.

Rot only sets in if afterwards, or if the fruit is damaged in some way.


close enough for me though i will eat blackening bananas in banana bread and will juice tomatoes that are getting a bit overipe but medlars are just so gross looking already... i think i'd need to try them cooked in something first then i might change my mind

what do they taste like anyway?

cab



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PostPosted: Thu May 12, 05 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

They taste, when bletted, like a cross between stewed apples and stewed pears, with the tiniest hint of spice.

When cooked in a jelly from un-bletted, I don't know how to describe them. Not so very far from quince jelly, but not as nice...

cab



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PostPosted: Thu May 12, 05 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

whitelegg1 wrote:
Apparently if you leave a quince in a bowl of apples, it transfers over some of the flavour.

Don't know if that is true, I've never had a quince...


I've never stored both in the bowl and then stewed the apples without quince. I might try it.

Our GP has a quince tree that we raid once a year.

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