Medlars (Paperback)

Jane Steward

ISBN 10: 1909248770 / ISBN 13: 9781909248779

Published by Prospect Books, Blackawton, 2023

About this Item

Paperback. At Eastgate in rural North Norfolk, Jane Steward is reviving the medlar, an old English fruit which was once Britain's sweet treat. Her trees are alive with colour for much of the year: white and yellow flowers in the summer, green leaves that turn to gold and russet. Grafted onto quince A rootstock, and helped by local honey bees, these are trees with prolific fruit.Alongside the Nottingham variety of medlars, Jane has established a national culinary collection on her six-acre smallholding. Varieties include Breda, Dutch, Westerveld, Macrocarpa, Royal, Bredase Reus, Flanders Giant, Iranian medlars. Her book on medlars will have over 30 recipes alongside a myriad of information on this forgotten fruit. Medlars is a book packed full of information about the medlar tree, once found all over the United Kingdom, a fruit which lapsed in popularity after the First World War. The author, Jane Steward revived an old fruit farm in the 21st century, replacing apples and pears with medlar trees. Jane curates the UK's National Collection of medlar trees. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Medlars (Paperback)
• Publisher: Prospect Books, Blackawton
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909248770
• ISBN 13: 9781909248779
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Medlars orginally came from the Caucasus region, Turkey, Georgia and the Balkans. After the first world war, the popularity of medlar fruit waned, and it became almost forgotten. Jane Steward has been a huge force in the revival of this ancient fruit. Jane Steward is the holder of the Plant Heritage National Collection of medlar trees since 2020. She owns Eastgate Larder, specialist maker of medlar preserves. Her vision and strategy is to revive awareness of the medlar in our gardens and kitchens. She cares for 115 trees in her medlar orchard at her Eastgate in Norfolk home, where she hand-makes preserves, and compounds Norfolk Medlar Gin Liqueur.

About the Author

Born and bred in Paddington, Jane and her young family moved to the East End in the mid-1980s, and she had two very distinct careers before Eastgate Larder was born. Using her linguistic background – she is fluent in French and German – Jane worked as an equities broker in the City for almost 17 years. Slowly, Jane began to plot her way out of City life.

By then, Jane had met David, a Suffolk boy from a farming background, and they discussed where they wanted to live. They chose Eastgate, a tiny hamlet near Cawston in Norfolk. There they began the next chapter of their lives,  and planted a medlar orchard

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