Information on apples for every occasion, covering dessert, cooking and cider
varieties. Delicious recipes on everything from apple crumble to making cider.
Packed with practical advice on growing and picking your own apples. Everyone
wants to eat local, home-grown fruit and vegetables and this helpful guide is a
wonderful sourcebook of the quintessential English fruit - the apple. Covering a
range of apple varieties that can be found growing in the orchards of the British
countryside, the book covers a wide range of dessert apples, cooking apples
and cider apples. Information on each variety includes a general description of
shape and colour for easy recognition, and, of course, a description of the taste.
Recipes and culinary suggestions are given throughout the book, and include
everything from apple crumble to making your own cider. Fairy tales, history
and folklore appears throughout, demonstrating how this humble fruit is central
to our culinary heritage. The book is packed with practical advice on how to
grow and pick your own apples, from choosing apple trees to planting and
attracting wildlife into your orchard, alongside information on harvesting and
storing your crop.
- ISBN13 9781909881129
- Publish Date 23 January 2014 (first published 17 August 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pavilion Books
- Imprint National Trust Books
- Format eBook
- Language English