http://onepeppercorn.com/2009/11/nespola/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:58:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://onepeppercorn.com/2009/11/nespola/comment-page-1/#comment-29 arnold Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:19:49 +0000 http://onepeppercorn.com/?p=240#comment-29 I saw medlars on sale at a farmers' market the other weekend; I was tempted to buy some, but I really couldn't think of anything to do with them. Even the blessed St Jane doesn't have much to suggest, except for medlar jelly as an accompaniment to lamb. But she does include the happy information that the medlar was traditionally known in England as the 'openarse' and in France as 'cul de chien'. I saw medlars on sale at a farmers’ market the other weekend; I was tempted to buy some, but I really couldn’t think of anything to do with them. Even the blessed St Jane doesn’t have much to suggest, except for medlar jelly as an accompaniment to lamb. But she does include the happy information that the medlar was traditionally known in England as the ‘openarse’ and in France as ‘cul de chien’.

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