Information on apples for every occasion

Covering dessert, cooking and cidervarieties. Delicious recipes on everything from apple crumble to making cider. Packed with practical advice on growing and picking your own apples. Everyonewants to eat local, home-grown fruit and vegetables and this helpful guide is awonderful sourcebook of the quintessential English fruit – the apple.

Covering arange of apple varieties that can be found growing in the orchards of the Britishcountryside, the book covers a wide range of dessert apples, cooking applesand cider apples. Information on each variety includes a general description ofshape and colour for easy recognition, and, of course, a description of the taste.

Recipes and culinary suggestions are given throughout the book, and includeeverything from apple crumble to making your own cider. Fairy tales, historyand folklore appears throughout, demonstrating how this humble fruit is centralto our culinary heritage.

The book is packed with practical advice on how togrow and pick your own apples, from choosing apple trees to planting andattracting wildlife into your orchard, alongside information on harvesting andstoring your crop.