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VARIETIES
1 GALA Sweet, mild and juicy, this is one of the UK’s most popular fruits. A crisp dessert apple, the Gala is red with mottled red-orange stripes. It’s ideal sliced in a Waldorf salad with celery, walnuts and lettuce.
2 EGREMONT RUSSET This distinctive apple is small and golden, with a nutty, floral flavour. It’s surprisingly versatile, and is as delicious in a French apple tart as it is with cheese in a ploughman’s.
3 BRAMLEY
4 COX
5 KANZI
Widely regarded as the definitive cooking apple, the traditional Bramley has a fluffy texture once cooked. Green and tangy, it can be used to make apple sauce, or try coring, stuffing with sultanas and baking.
The classic British eating apple, the Cox is green or yellow with bursts of dark red. Its crisp, aromatic flesh has a honeyed, nutty flavour, and works well in a tarte tatin (p85), or in autumnal toffee apples.
A cross between a sweet Gala and a tart Braeburn, the Kanzi is sharp and crisp. Delicious raw or sliced to top a cake, Kanzis are in store from 31 October in the Best of British Apples Fridge Pack.
1 Over 40 types are grown in the UK – and only the very best make it through expert testing and into stores PREP
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Dessert apples can be washed and eaten raw with the skin on, while cooking apples should be peeled and cored. To prevent flesh turning brown once cut, soak in water with lemon juice.
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E NJ OY Dessert apples are great in salads or on top of tarts as they hold their shape when cooked. Cooking apples lose texture and turn soft, so are best in pies or crumbles.
Try them out BIRCHER MUESLI Soak grated *apple, oats, raisins, apple juice and milk in a bowl overnight. Serve with blackberries and honey. APPLE FLAPJACK Melt butter, *sugar and golden syrup in a pan. Stir in oats and grated apple, then bake until golden. Allow to cool, then slice into bars.
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CELERIAC SOUP Cook onion, *celery and garlic in a pan, until
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soft. Add chopped celeriac and apple; after 2 minutes add stock. Simmer for 30 minutes, then blitz.
WORDS BRYONY BOWIE PHOTOGRAPHY JONATHAN KENNEDY FOOD STYLING BIANCA NICE PROP STYLING REBECCA NEWPORT
STORE Keep apples in the fridge or a cool, dark spot in a perforated bag. Keep an eye on them, as it’s true that one bad apple can make the others turn.
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