Stone Fruit

I was expecting concentrated stone-fruit flavors but it turned out to be quite lean with a slight hint of petrol and an unmistakable minerality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Expressions: le noyau familial = the family unit cracher un noyau = to spit out a pit. des fruits à noyaux = stone-fruit électrons autour du noyau = electrons around the nucleus ❋ Unknown (2006)

Great post—I, too, am feeling like I SHOULD overdose on stone-fruit before “going whole-squash.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

I can't wait to make it again when stone-fruit season comes again. ❋ Shaun (2007)

The Masumotos live about 20 miles southeast of Fresno in a low-slung 1920s farmhouse surrounded by old grape vines with tight bunches of pale young fruit, and stone-fruit orchards laden with ripening nectarines and peaches. ❋ Unknown (2006)

La Spinetta su, salsa di pesche gialle ed il suo sorbetto, or at least I had a bite of the Moscato aspic with a red current in it, the gel wrapping the nuanced grapefruit and stone-fruit notes of the Moscato around the tart little berry. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The seeds of citrus, stone, and pome fruits generate cyanide, and stone-fruit seeds are prized because their cyanogens also produce benzaldehyde, the characteristic odor of almond extract p. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

The committee represents the stone-fruit, table grape, apple and pear sectors of the industry. ❋ Unknown (1992)

If you graft either Peach, Plumbe, or any stone-fruit vpon a Willow stocke, the fruit which commeth of them will be without stones. ❋ Gervase Markham (N/A)

"No, Grant; but it will have next year; and that's one thing we gardeners always have to do with stone-fruit trees -- keep cutting out the old wood and letting the young shoots take the old branches 'place." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

The _curculio_, which destroys plums and other stone-fruit, can be checked only by gathering up all the fruit that falls, (which contains their eggs,) and destroying it. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

[Oh my god] why [are you] [such a] stone-fruit??? ❋ Hottest_eddie_45 (2008)