APPLES apples everywhere, ripening faster than we can cook or eat them. So beautiful that we can’t bear to waste even the windfalls, so what to do?

HAPPY birthday, Bramley Seedling. This year, all of us cooks and chefs celebrate the bicentennial of our favourite cooking apple. Bet you didn’t know it’s 200 years since a young girl, Mary Ann Brailsford, planted an apple pip in her family’s Nottinghamshire garden. One of those apple pips emerged as a vigorous seedling around 1809.