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- Identifying a Mystery Apple Tree on Plot #79
In which I apply a three-step apple i.d. process to see if I can find a match for these not-as-labelled apples. - How To: Identify Apple and Pear VarietiesWondering how to i.d. a mystery apple or pear variety? Here’s a guide to: doing it yourself, asking an expert, and DNA testing.
- Quick Reminder: How to Pick Apples and PearsWith harvest season starting, here’s a reminder of how to pick apples and pears without doing undue damage in the process.
- Making Eliza Acton’s ‘Essex Pudding (Cheap and Good)’In which I have a go at re-creating a historical orchard recipe for the first time… with rather delicious results.
- How To: Turn Windfall Apples Into Spiced Apple CompoteHere’s a great way to make something warm, spicy and delicious out of all your under-ripe windfall apples.
- ‘Beauty of Bath’ is our First Apple of 2021The first apples of 2021 are ready for picking and in the Plot #79 orchard, that means it’s time for ‘Beauty of Bath’
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- Identifying a Mystery Apple Tree on Plot #79In which I apply a three-step apple i.d. process to see if I can find a match for these not-as-labelled apples.
- Henry Howard, on Making ‘Pippin Tansey’Here’s Henry’s recipe for what amounts to a sweet, baked, pastry-less quiche, with spices and fried apple slices.
- Anon, on Making ‘Apple Pudding, Baked, Without Paste’This nineteenth century recipe for a bread and butter / baked apple hybrid pudding sounds simple, substantial and rather tasty.
- How To: Identify Apple and Pear VarietiesWondering how to i.d. a mystery apple or pear variety? Here’s a guide to: doing it yourself, asking an expert, and DNA testing.
- Richard Bradley, on Making VerjuiceHere’s an eighteenth century method for making a condiment ingredient that would once have been a common element of many dishes.
- Shout Out for The Virtual Apple Parer MuseumCheck out Mike Viney’s online collection of antique apple peeling / coring / slicing machinery.
- Elizabeth Moxon, on Making ‘Plumb Porridge’This eighteenth century version of porridge definitely isn’t the porridge we know and love today, plumb or otherwise.
- Quick Reminder: How to Pick Apples and PearsWith harvest season starting, here’s a reminder of how to pick apples and pears without doing undue damage in the process.
- Making Eliza Acton’s ‘Essex Pudding (Cheap and Good)’In which I have a go at re-creating a historical orchard recipe for the first time… with rather delicious results.
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