Pastel de tres leches

baby fruits

Is the plural of fruit fruit or fruits?
The Free Dictionary says:
fruit  (frt)
n. pl. fruit or fruits
1.
a. The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts,  containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
b. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
c. A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food: fruit for dessert.
2. The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.
3. A plant crop or product: the fruits of the earth.
4. Result; outcome: the fruit of their labor.
5. Offspring; progeny.
6. A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.
7. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
intr. & tr.v. fruit·edfruit·ingfruits
To produce or cause to produce fruit.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin frctusenjoyment, fruit, from past participle of fruto enjoy.]

Fruiting? A verb? Really?
Well, in that case, our trees are fruiting ... baby fruits abound. Sammy and I took a spin through the vineyard and orchard on this gorgeous afternoon to see what we could see.

baby pears! soon time to try making eau du vie

despite being riddled with green worms (which I organically hand-picked and squished under my ducky boots), the plum tree seems to be fruiting as well

grapelettes on well-trained vines


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