echinosum wrote:
'David Hare-Scott[_2_ Wrote:
;961257']I pulled my medlars to make jelly this week

As far as I can tell there are leaves growing from the fruit itself,
not something you see too often.
I thought one generally made medlar jelly with bletted medlars, to get
that particular medlar flavour, hence picking them in mid Autumn.

I pick as late as possible, the leaves are falling now so there is no point
in keeping them on the tree any longer.

Though one recipe I saw suggested keeping the medlars in a bowl for
some days to soften if they hadn't bletted on the tree. Either way,
picking them now seems very early - you wouldn't pick your Bramleys
now to turn into jelly would you, even if they had enlarged.


No it is very late, these flowered in September. I am in Australia. This
is an international newsgroup!

Yes they do need to be bletted but after a cool damp summer they are not
going to do it on the tree so they are sitting on a table indoors ripening.
If the dogs will only stop stealing them.

Surely the "leaves" are the flower sepals, having an unusual
persistence: just the same thing as one sees blackened around the
arse end of an apple, but on a larger scale and staying green for
longer.

Quite possibly.

David