English Apples and Pears, the industry's trade association, has released recipes for dishes such as Polish apple cake and Indian lamb dhansak using Bramleys, a sour cooking apple also in decline, to try and encourage immigrants to eat more of them.And tastes are changing.
Mr. Wood decided to grow Calville Blanc d'Hiver, a classic French dessert and cooking apple from the 16th century, for its rich, effervescent flavor and distinctive ribbed form.
Our 'Bramley's Seedling' cooking apple tree is now eight years old and has always produced the large, green, acidic cooking apples that one would expect from it.
In America, I wasn't familiar with the Bramley "cooking apple", but it would be the perfect choice for the stewed apples with boozy custard recipe this week.
"We love native bluebells for their wonderful scent of cooking apple, mango, lychees, ginger and freshly mown grass, but that plant is in real danger," said Dr Trevor Dines, a botanist for Plantlife.
175g plain flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; ½ teaspoon cinnamon; 1 tablespoon butter; 1 tablespoon sugar; 2 eggs; 1 large cooking apple; ½ pint milk; butter for cooking Sift the flour with the baking powder and cinnamon.
Makes 175g 50g fresh mint leaves, chopped 50g fresh coriander leaves, chopped ½ cooking apple, chopped 1 small red onion, chopped 1-2 small green chillies, finely chopped Salt to taste Juice of 1 lemon or lime 1 Mix all of the ingredients together.
Gather late summer salads, an armful of chard for Nigel Slater's pie, I fill a pocket with hazels and a bag with cooking apples, too.
Rather like a puree of cooking apples, this sauce can enhance all kinds of rich, fatty meats and fish, too.
Juice a couple of sour cooking apples and apply a little juice directly to the mole.
