Apricots arrive late and leave fast. Plums never seem to be sold quite ripe enough. Peaches, in their best week of the year, will not survive a refrigerator. This is a collection assembled with that all-too-brief window in mind: seven things to bake when the stone fruit at the market is right on the edge of being too ripe to eat as is. Most are quick. None require a level of skill you do not already have.
Make any of them on a Sunday afternoon, slightly under-sweetened, with a great spoonful of crème fraîche.