Check out Mike Viney’s online collection of antique apple peeling / coring / slicing machinery.
Category: Orchard History
The Norfolk Biffin, A History Part I – Biffin Desserts
In part one of this article I explore the detailed story of the dried, pressed apple dessert known as the ‘Norfolk Biffin’.
Gervase Markham, on Medicinal Apples
Bubonic Plague? Pleurisy? Gervase Markham has just the thing to get you back on your feet again.
J. C. Loudon, on Persia’s Artistic Apples
Here’s a snippet from a 19th Century gardening magazine – sounds like it might be interesting to try.
Darlene Hayes is Speaking of Cider Apples
A rather interesting new series on cider apple varieties has just started on the ‘Turn Them All Into Cider’ blog.
On The Trail of the ‘Hereford Beefing’
A chance glance at a Tweet sparks hours of enjoyable research into old apple varieties and this very long-read piece.
John Taverner, on the Economic Benefit of Planting Orchards
It was a great idea in 1600 and it’s still a great idea in 2021: plant more orchards!
Waxing Pomological at the Hort. Soc. London
A record of a rather superb (and rather under-unappreciated) gift to the Horticultural Society of London.