Medlar honey

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    6 x 200 ml

    jars
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Farmhouse

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2011

  • About

Medlars look like small, brown, thick-skinned apples that sprawl open at the flower end to reveal five plump little seed-boxes. They never fully ripen on the stalk, but must be left to blet or soften once picked. The flavour is flowery, rather like over-ripened quince. Since I always have trouble getting medlar jelly to set properly – although lots of people don’t, and nor might you – I leave well alone and call it medlar honey. Runny or set, it tastes just as good.

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