Darina Allen: The perfect recipes for your 'windfall' apples
Darina Allen: These under-ripe fruit are perfect for apple jelly
Storm Ellen and Storm Francis played 'hell' with our apple crop. We didn’t have a particularly good crop anyway but much of our meagre harvest ended up as windfalls in the grass underneath the apple trees in the orchard. Some — like Beauty of Bath — were already ripe, many other varieties were not but still the strong winds managed to shake them off their branches. I collected as many as I could to make windfall jelly.
These under-ripe fruit are perfect for apple jelly: don’t worry about the odd bruise or slug bite — just cut them out. Wash the fruit but don’t bother to peel, save the stalks and seeds too, they all add to the end result.
