Showing posts with label damsons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label damsons. Show all posts

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

From Pomona's Store

We'll rather taste the bright Pomona's store,
No fruit shall 'scape
Our palates, from the damson to the grape.*

From An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford to hasten him in the Country by Thomas Randolph (1605 - 1634)

Friday, September 27, 2013

Damson and no Selilah

Lots of damsons* this year.
Here but a few I picked yesterday
to cook them four hours
and in between bake a cake

and finally get six glasses of damson butter.

* Before anyone asks: What are damsons?

Plums they are both. Actually the plum-family is quite big. For example, the mirabelle is also a member. :)
As for the difference:
The damson is the more juicy sister of the plum. :)
Plums are almost round and bigger; and their flesh tends to be reddish;
damsons are oval, and their flesh is yellow.