Apricots grow on a small tree, which tends to be between eight and 12 m in height. Apricots can be found all over the world. However, they originate from the North East area of China, close to the Russian border. The fruit that this tree produces is essentially a drupe, which is very comparable to a peach. There is only a single seed inside of the apricot, which is covered by a hard and stony shell, known as the kernel. The flesh of the apricot is very tasty, but it’s not very juicy. There are a lot of benefits that are associated with eating apricots. This fruit is an excellent source of both Vitamin A and Vitamin B. It also presents you with a good way of adding some more water to your diet. This is because roughly 86 percent of an apricot is water. The rest of the fruit is fat, protein, and carbohydrates. When they are overripe they sometimes fall to the ground, due to gravity
Ew , memories of primary schools, being made to eat stewed apricots by Mrs Rawlinson aka rolling pin at dinner.
We had some fresh ones from a market in Troyes, France a few years back. They were so tasty, beautiful in fact and we’ve tried to find ones like that here since but they’ve all been a bit tasteless. Love them though, in jam, the dried ones or in a crumble as already said.
Yes, they do seem to be particularly poor in the shops here. We've got a small apricot tree in the warmest corner of the garden and we've had, let me think, less than half a dozen fruit in 15 years. They are nice when ripened on the tree though; the best ones I ever had were in the Hunza Valley towards the the Pakistan-Chinese border. Just picked from a tree in the courtyard of the guesthouse
I remember as a young lad being fed tinned apricots in a syrup, God how I hated them, Now I quite enjoy a fresh apricot or even apricot jam