apricocks

Shakespeare and others it should be remembered that their days were twelve days later than ours of the same names; and if to this is added the variation of a fortnight or three weeks, which may occur in any season in the ripening of a fruit, "apricocks" might well be sometimes gathered on their Midsummer day.

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

In August come plums of all sorts in fruit; pears; apricocks; berberries; filberds; musk – melons; monks – hoods, of all colors.

The Essays 2007

Take apricocks before they be full ripe, stone and pare

English Housewifery 2004

So as the grooms hustled our baggage within, I followed Master Harpole into a green confusion of pleaching and pruning and apricocks and yew.

In the Garden of Iden 1997

Take young green apricocks, so tender that you may thrust a pin through the stone, scald them and scrape the out side, of putting them in water as you peel them till your tart be ready, then dry them and fill the tart with them, and lay on good store of fine sugar, close it up and bake it, ice it, scrape on sugar, and serve it up.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

For green tarts take green quodlings, green preserved apricocks, green preserved plums, green grapes, and green gooseberries.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

Take spinage boil'd, green peese, green apricocks, green plums quodled, peaches quodled, green necturnes quodled, gooseberries quodled, green sorrel, and the juyce of green wheat.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

If to have them yellow, preserved quinces, apricocks, necturnes, and melacattons, boil them up in white-wine with sugar, and strain them.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

Will had to feed up on honey and candied apricocks and mares 'milk for months before they would admit him to the army.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

They're fasheous bargains --- aye crying for apricocks, pears, plums, and apples, summer and winter, without distinction

Rob Roy 1887