Feb 25, 2022 · How to eat medlar fruit? You can eat medlar fruit once they are soft and in a bletted state. They are inedible when they are hard. You can eat them raw with some yoghurt …

Nov 8, 2021 · That “rotten look” is not one that makes people want to fill their bags in the produce aisle. However, it is this bletting process that releases the fruit’s fragrance and flavor and …

Bletting is a process of softening that certain fleshy fruits undergo, beyond ripening.

Jan 8, 2025 · “Rotten” describes an undesirable microbial or fungal breakdown. Medlars CAN rot, and when they do, you don’t want to eat them. They’re good when they have a self induced …

Dec 26, 2013 · (For a once popular fruit, medlar has had its share of pejoratives. “Rotten,” in the above recipe, means bletted. But many fruits, including European pears and avocados, need …

Dec 1, 2018 · Either the fruit is harvested from the trees in late autumn and stored in straw until it appears ‘over-ripe’ or ‘rotten’. The second method is to leave the fruit on the trees to blet. This …

Jul 8, 2015 · Not only that but they are really intriguing because to eat them you need to "blet" them. Which is pretty much the nice way of saying that you need them to become soft and …

Dec 12, 2018 · For certain fruit, bletting is actually an essential process to make it edible for us. Fruit such as Sloes (the fruit of the Blackthorn bush – Prunus spinosa) and Medlars (Mespilus …

Jul 17, 2014 · The secret is to ‘blet’ them before cooking – an almost completely lost word you don’t find in many dictionaries. Bletting means decaying or rotting, and the medlar fruit will only …

Nov 30, 2018 · While you can make a medlar jelly from the freshly picked fruit, it’s traditional to ‘blet’ them so that they soften and the flesh begins to break down. My father-in-law used to …