apple recipe – Orchard Notes

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Anyone for a 14th century recipe for what sounds distinctly like a fried, fruit-filled doughnut?

Fried fruity things, with apples, figs, dates, currants and spices? What’s not to like?

16th and 17th century jam-making recipe, anyone? No jars back then though, so you’ll have to store it in boxes…

This anonymously-authored 16th century apple dessert recipe could be a good one for anyone with a butter surplus to shift.

Anyone for an apple Bavarian cream? Time to dust off your old bunny mould and whip up a boozy Victorian dessert in time for Easter.

Here’s another sweet-sounding baked apple dessert, this time from the early 19th century.

This 19th century recipe is billed as Cheap and Good, and with just four ingredients it should be easy enough to make.

Two 15th century recipes today, both for sweet, colourful, apple and bread / rice potages of some sort.

Here’s a 16th century recipe for a sweet, spice, apple and bread sauce (or dessert?) that sounds rather intriguing.

Here’s a quick and easy recipe for the sort of fried apple sweetmeat enjoyed in the early 17th century.