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"Pat Gardiner" writes:
| "Stuart Noble" wrote in message
| ...
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| To my mind the chaenomeles japonica fruit is inedible, even after a bout
| in the pressure cooker and equal amounts of sugar. Every year I collect
| the fruit with good intentions, and every year I end up dumping it.
| Mine thrives on a west facing, but quite shady, fence
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| Yes, it is off-putting, but it will make a reasonable jam
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| ...and as Sacha says it will make a genuinely fabulous jelly.

It's excellent as cheese, pickle[*], ice-cream, as sauce and good in
tarts. But in all cases, mainly for people who regard lemons as
table fruit :-)

We don't bother to collect most of them, but they keep on the ground
until early spring.

| We have become accustomed to receiving perfect fruit, vegetables and meat,
| well presented AND restricted to items that sell in bulk to the British.

And things that taste and feel like predigested pap.
[*] Japonica, chillis, wine vinegar, salt and bay leaves. Suitable
for enlivening the dullest mousetrap. Not for wimps.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.