Apples

[Anna]

But, those recipes are an accompaniment, not a meal cooked entirely from fruit, merely sauces - to enhance the vegetables!! And very nice as is apple sauce with pork. roast tatties and greens, just try serving up the apple sauce sans everything else for sunday lunch But, the veggies served up on their own minus pork are totally yummy.

[umslopogaas]

Two not yet mentioned:

'Golden Noble', a cooking apple that my mum used to reckon was the tops.

'Quar(r?)enden', a deep crimson eating apple.

Quarenden is so antique it isnt even mentioned in my 'The Apples of England' by H.V. Taylor (1948).

And vinteuil, I think that's JAMES Grieve and CHARLES Ross, unless you've been up to some interesting hybridisation.

Wonderful evocative memory. When I was very small, we had a big garden and lots of apple trees, and my mum used to sell the surplus. A notice hung up on the garden gate, 'Apples for sale, penny a pound for cookers, twopence for eaters'. We got a lot of customers, and before you scoff, this was the 1950s and a few pennies and twopences came in very handy.

I recall that one of my close shaves with death (there have been others) came when I put up the ladder to get the best 'Charles Ross' from the top of the tree, only to find that the ladder wasnt any too safe as I approached the top. WhERR! ... but I grabbed it and just got stable again before the whole lot came crashing down.

Alas, one can only remember. The whole lot was sold off for housing in the early nineteen sixties. I cant bear to revisit, its better to remember ...

[teamsaint]

Erm ... no rude intention in that last post.

I ROFL'd....thanks FH !!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But, those recipes are an accompaniment, not a meal cooked entirely from fruit, merely sauces - to enhance the vegetables!!

"Enhance" as in "cover up the horrible taste"? Is there a fruit whose flavour needs "enhancing" as vegetables all do? And is there a fruit that has to be cooked before it can be eaten as per spuds, brocoli, cauliflower, etc etc etc ad nausea?

[teamsaint]

"Enhance" as in "cover up the horrible taste"? Is there a fruit whose flavour needs "enhancing" as vegetables all do? And is there a fruit that has to be cooked before it can be eaten as per spuds, brocoli, cauliflower, etc etc etc ad nausea?

Rhubarb?
technically probably a veg, or nut, or something i suppose.

[aeolium]

And is there a fruit that has to be cooked before it can be eaten as per spuds, brocoli, cauliflower, etc etc etc ad nausea?

Cooking apples like Bramleys, I suppose, fhg (and sloes are a bit on the sharp side). But in general, I'm with you in much preferring fruit to veg (and then nuts are another story altogether...)

[amateur51]

Well, I guess I meant if you have a selection of vegetables, and cook them, you have a meal, whereas an apple, a banana and a couple of grapes don't equal a satisfying dinner! You know what I mean Ams! Vegetables are versatile, fruit is just fruit, you cannot do a fruit curry! (for example) Also, I do have here: apples, pears, clematines and figs. But, they are not essential to life

Certainly essential to my life, I'd say.

Sorry Anna I thought you were proposing that you (one) could have a balanced diet long-term by just eating veggies. That is not what you mean.

[amateur51]

And have you ever tried custard on your Cauliflower? NEVER again!!

But surely a good cheese sauce is merely custard with the sugar removed and cheese added?

Mmmmm cauilfower cheese mmmmm

[teamsaint]

But surely a good cheese sauce is merely custard with the sugar removed and cheese added?

Mmmmm cauilfower cheese mmmmm

yummy, but chips essential with it. I do Cauli and brocolli cheese .

[amateur51]

yummy, but chips essential with it. I do Cauli and brocolli cheese .

Sounds pretty cosmic, ts

[teamsaint]

Sounds pretty cosmic, ts

with a splash of Worcester sauce, and Elgar 2 playing.....

[amateur51]

with a splash of Worcester sauce, and Elgar 2 playing.....

Woo-hoo Elgar & Worcester sauce - double Gloucester cheese then?!

[teamsaint]

Woo-hoo Elgar & Worcester sauce - double Gloucester cheese then?!

I think you have struck on something Ams. Serendipitous musical recipes...way to go !!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes cauliflower cheese is pretty damn fine ... and with brocoli and chips. (But doesn't custard need egg, unlike cheese sauce?) And nuts ... oh, yes (as I'm sure kernelbogey will cheerfully assent! )

[greenilex]

I wonder about baked apples as a main course...with some interesting grain mix in the middle, with herbs and maybe even a few chives?