Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Apple Days

I don't have any apple trees in my garden but the house next door but one does.  When I moved here an elderly gentleman called Arthur lived there, he'd planted the trees many years ago. Arthur died a few years ago and his house is now rented to a very pleasant young couple who have absolutely no interest in their garden at all so they let my neighbour and I pick as many apples as we like.


Yesterday, mindful of an approaching storm, we picked the final ones.  

One of the trees we think is an egremont russet


One is possibly a cox


And one is totally unidentified; a redish, very juicy eater


But the best of all are the cookers.  


They are much sweeter than normal cookers and hardly need any sugar at all but we have no idea which variety they are.  They're the size of a bramley but yellower in colour - anyone know what variety they could be?


I made chutney from some of the windfalls


And will freeze some of the other cookers for use over the winter, but I'll keep some to bake later, filled with some dried fruit and brandy - yum!