How To Use Greengage In A Sentence
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Whatever you do this summer, tuck in to this gorgeous, grapey, spicy yellow plum and greengage-layered white.
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Use a slotted spoon to lift the greengages into a serving bowl.
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Greengages are the first plums of the season.
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These trees also differ in their manner of growth: "the greengage is a very short-jointed, slow-growing tree, of spreading and rather dwarfish habit;" whilst its offspring, the imperial gage, "grows freely and rises rapidly, and has long dark shoots.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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If they are greengages, they'll be sweet and suitable for eating.
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There are still strawberries, late and ripe, to go with the wild blackberries; Victoria plums and damsons are easy enough to find and even the odd greengage or two.
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And I want a greengage plum tree of my own in the worst way.
Growing Food
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A pity, because the beautifully poached damsons, greengages and plums which accompanied them were ambrosial enough to serve on their own.
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The green skin may not indicate sweetness but ripe greengages are mouth-watering when eaten raw and they make excellent jam or purées for pies and puddings.
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He sometimes ventures farther afield, having gone to Puerto Rico for mangosteens, Italy for blood oranges and France for greengage plums, but most of his work is done in California.
The Fruit Hunters
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This has been greengage week, with mine ripening in the garden and a spate of greengage-related dishes on restaurant menus, including a very tempting almond tart at Bayswater's Le Café Anglais.
Nigel Slater's mushrooms with quinoa and chard, and baked greengages recipes
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Many consider greengages to be one of the finest dessert plums.
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I noticed a chimney rising just above the treetops of a spinney of ash, maple, hazel, elder, blackthorn, ivy and bramble, and what was left of a cottage orchard of walnut, greengage and apple.
Wildwood
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Serve with a spoonful of the greengage compote on the side.
Times, Sunday Times
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You will think me mad, but I bought myself a bare root dwarf (?) self-fertile, greengage plum tree, and a really giant fiberglass pot (Costco-$20, not even ugly), and there is now a plum tree on the porch.
Plum Crazy
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Bake the tart for 50-60 minutes, until the almond filling is cooked and the plums or greengages are tender.
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And once the cards had been taken down from their strings and the tree lights well and truly entangled for next year, it was always a particular joy in the first days of January to wander up the garden path through the 'orchard' as we euphemistically called it, to take a look at a patch of earth under a stubborn old greengage tree.
Aconite Acolyte
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Cover and leave to simmer for 15 min, stirring regularly to crush the greengages down to a pulp.
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The beautifully poached damsons, greengages and plums which accompanied them were ambrosial enough to serve on their own.
