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chaenomeles
sharron kemp
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can you eat the fruit from chaenomeles plants
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sharron kemp
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Leave them on as long as possible to ripen. You can make a jelly like a crab apple jelly with them, you will need plenty of sugar and it has a lovely aroma. They seem to have plenty of pectin as my wife [who made the jelly] said it set very easily.
Yes, I use them in cooking - as others have said, let them get as ripe as possible (they usually turn yellowish). They're great for a jelly as Invicta says. Use with apples or pears or on their own.
I also cut oneor two into quarters and put them inside and around a pheasant with some apples as well to pot roast (also guinea fowl). It makes a wonderful sauce - especially if you add some cider instead of stock as the liquor, and stir in some creme fraiche before serving
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Had some Jelly made from these on my toast this morning, lovely.