Apples
Went to Beningbrough Hall at the weekend, where there's a large walled kitchen garden with quite a few apple varieties growing. This time of year they run an apple celebration, which seems to amount to little more than putting the varieties out on a table, and dusting down their cider press. Walking round the gardens a lot of fruit had fallen (and not been collected.) So I nabbed a cross-section of the rare varieties on offer (not sure if this is actually allowed...) Some date back to the c.16th (and are quite unpleasant.) Others are as good, or better, than anything you'd find in the local grocer.
Posted by monoman at 11:52 AM on October 28, 2008
